Grey-headed tanager

Grey-headed tanager
At Manizales, Caldas, Colombia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Eucometis
Sclater, PL, 1856
Species:
E. penicillata
Binomial name
Eucometis penicillata
(Spix, 1825)

The grey-headed tanager (Eucometis penicillata) is a widely distributed species of small Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Eucometis.

It is found in Central America and northern South America from Mexico to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Eucometis penicillata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22722343A132014914. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722343A132014914.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.