The green-capped tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to forest edge and gardens at altitudes of 1450–2200 m. in Puno, Peru, and La Paz, Bolivia. It is fairly common and possibly spreading, but its small population has led to it being evaluated as Near Threatened by BirdLife International and IUCN.
Similar species: Perching Birds
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Uploaded Sep 26, 2024. Captured Aug 20, 2024 09:28 in QH66+WQ6, Sandia 21365, Peru.
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It contains 14 pecies. Of those, about half show a combination of black with bright colors (Blue-necked and Golden hooded Tanagers, for instance). And the other half show a combination of blue, green, and orange colors that mix pastel tones and opalescent iridescence (Scrub Tanager, Burnished-Buff, Chestnut-backed, etc).
Furthermore, some species have extensive ranges, being found throughout the Andes or the Amazonian lowlands. And then you've got one species that's restricted to two small islands in the Caribbean, another that's endemic to the Sira, which is an isolated chain of hills that rise in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon, and finally this one, which is only found in a couple of dry inter Andean valleys on the border between Peru and Bolivia. Posted 11 months ago, modified 11 months ago