Blue-grey Tanager

Thraupis episcopus - Tangara évêque

Systematics

Order
:
Passeriformes
Family
:
Thraupidés
Genus
:
Thraupis
Species
:
episcopus

Descriptor

Linnaeus, 1766

Biometrics

Size
: 16 cm
Wingspan
: -
Weight
: 27 à 45 g

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Blue-grey Tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Subspecific information 14 subspecies

Thraupis episcopus episcopus (the Guianas to c Brazil)
Thraupis episcopus cana (se Mexico to ne Colombia and n Venezuela)
Thraupis episcopus caesitia (Bocas del Toro. off nw Panama.)
Thraupis episcopus cumatilis (Coiba I.. off s Panama.)
Thraupis episcopus nesophila (e Colombia to e Venezuela, Trinidad)
Thraupis episcopus berlepschi (Tobago)
Thraupis episcopus mediana (se Colombia and s Venezuela to n Bolivia)
Thraupis episcopus ehrenreichi (Purús R.. nw Brazil.)
Thraupis episcopus leucoptera (c Colombia)
Thraupis episcopus quaesita (sw Colombia to nw Peru)
Thraupis episcopus caerulea (se Ecuador and n Peru)
Thraupis episcopus major (c Peru)
Thraupis episcopus urubambae (se Peru)
Thraupis episcopus coelestis (se Colombia, e Ecuador to w Brazil and c Peru)

Foreign names

Tangara évêque,
Tangara azuleja,
sanhaço-da-amazónia,
Bischofstangare,
Bisschopstangare,
Tanagra grigiazzurra,
blågrå tangara,
Bispetanagar,
tangara modrá,
tangara modrá,
Blågrå Tangar,
piispatangara,
tàngara blavosa,
tangarka niebieska,
Синий траупис,
ソライロフウキンチョウ,
灰蓝裸鼻雀,
灰藍裸鼻雀,

Voice song and cries

play
pause

Habitat

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland ; Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Moist ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Plantations, Rural Gardens, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status

Extinct

Threatened

Least
concern

Extinc
in the Wild

Near
threatened

Not
evaluated

EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

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