Turquoise Tanager
Tangara mexicana
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The turquoise tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is a resident bird from Trinidad, much of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, and south to Bolivia. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Mexico. It is restricted to areas with humid forest, with its primary distribution being the Amazon. It was formerly treated as being conspecific with the white-bellied tanager which is found in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Genus
- Tangara