Orange-throated Tanager
Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
The orange-throated tanager is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is found very locally in humid forests around the Ecuador-Peru border. As a species it is considered threatened. The orange-throated tanager is the only member of the genus Wetmorethraupis, named after the ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. It is closely related to members of the genus Bangsia.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Genus
- Wetmorethraupis