Silver-backed tanager
Silver-backed tanager | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Stilpnia |
Species: | S. viridicollis
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Binomial name | |
Stilpnia viridicollis (Taczanowski, 1884)
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The silver-backed tanager (Stilpnia viridicollis), also known as the silvery tanager, is a species of bird in the tanager family. It is found in humid highland forests in southern Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It is regularly spotted at Machu Picchu.
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Tangara viridicollis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Stilpnia
- Birds of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Birds of the Peruvian Andes
- Birds described in 1884
- Taxa named by Władysław Taczanowski
- Thraupidae stubs