Blue-gray tanager

Blue-gray tanager
A Blue-Grey Tanager in San Miguel, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Thraupis
Species:
T. episcopus
Binomial name
Thraupis episcopus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Loxia virens Linnaeus, 1766
  • Tanagra episcopus Linnaeus, 1766
  • Tangara episcopus[2] (Linnaeus, 1766)

The blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. It has been introduced to Lima (Peru). On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Thraupis episcopus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22722527A167302828. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22722527A167302828.en. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Morlan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).