Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thraupidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Rio Blanco, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Cauca, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Cauca, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Mindo, Ecuador
Status: The Silver-throated Tanager is rare in humid forest of extreme northwest Peru in Tumbes at elevations ranging between 800-900 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Tangara de Garganta Plateada.
Sub-species: Silver-throated Tanager (Tangara icterocephala icterocephala), (Bonaparte), 1851.
Meaning of Name: Tangara: Tupí name, Tangara= dancer, one who turns and skips, originally used for the manakins, but subsequently (Marcgrave 1648) transferred to other bright finch-like birds.
icterocephala: Gr. Ikteros= jaundice-yellow and kephale, kephalos= head, headed .

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.