Blue-Gray Tanager (Thraupis episcopus)

A Blue-Gray Tanager singing, although it looks as if it's screaming. I took this photo earlier this month while doing a balancing act on a small ledge near our patio area, in an effort to get a view of the bird through the dense leaves.

comments (4)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Worth the effort! Posted 4 years ago
1. Wesley Goorachan
  
  Lion
  
  It certainly was! Posted 4 years ago

Calbost Niel

Lion

Very expressive shot Wesley Posted 4 years ago
1. Wesley Goorachan
  
  Lion
  
  Thank you Niel! Posted 4 years ago

The Blue-gray tanager

The blue-gray tanager 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. On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean.

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Similar species: Perching Birds

Species identified by Wesley Goorachan