Green-capped Tanager (Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei)

Identification & Behavior: ~14 cm (5.5 in). The Green-capped Tanager has bluish upperparts and buffy underparts with brown vent and undertail coverts. The cap is richer buffy brown with greenish shades on the forehead and eyebrow areas. It has a dusky mask through the eye. It is similar to the Burnished-buff Tanager but is distinguished by having bluish upperparts and lacking a black mask and rufous crown. Also, see the female and immature Blue-and-Yellow Tanager.

Status: The Green-capped Tanager is uncommon and restricted to extreme southeastern Peru in the Puno (Sandia area) where it ranges at elevations between 1450-2200 m. It also occurs in Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tangara de Gorro Verde.

Sub-species: Green-capped Tanager (Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei), Schulenberg and Binford, 1985.

Meaning of Name: Stilpnia: Gr. Stilpnos= glistening, glittering. meyerdeschauenseei: In honor of Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901-1984) Swiss/US ornithologist, collector.

Formerly known as Tangara meyerdeschauenseei (2018).

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