Yellow-throated Tanager (Iridosornis analis)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thraupidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonas, Peru

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manu Road, Cuzco

yellow-throated_tanager
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonas, Peru

yellow-throated_tanager
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonas, Peru

Identification & Behavior: ~16 cm (6.5 in). The Yellow-throated Tanager has a dusky blue head and a bright yellow throat. The rest of the upperparts are bluish-green. The underparts are gray-green with a rusty vent and undertail coverts. It forages in pairs or alone in the mid and understory of humid montane forests. The closely related but distinctive Golden-collared Tanager ranges at higher elevations.

Status: The Yellow-throated Tanager is uncommon in humid montane forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 1000-2350 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.

Name in Spanish: Tangara de Garganta Amarilla.

Sub-species: Yellow-throated Tanager (Iridosornis analis), (Tschudi), 1844.

Meaning of Name: Iridosornis: Gr. iris, iridos= rainbow and ornis, ornithos= bird.
analis: L. analis= relating to the undertail-coverts, of the vent.

See more of the Family Thraupidae   peru aves

Distribution Map
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References:

    • 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.