Blue-and-yellow Tanager Pipraeidea bonariensis
(aka Thraupis bonariensis or Rauenia bonariensis)
Male Blue-and-yellow Tanager, Urupema, Santa Catarina, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image Santa Catarina, Brazil,
October 2022

The Blue-and-yellow Tanager is distributed in southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, central and northern Argentina and Bolivia. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

Male Blue-and-yellow Tanager, Urupema, Santa Catarina, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image The male, pictured here, has a blue head and throat with a black mask and a blackish back with yellow rump. Underparts are yellow with an orange wash to the breast. The female is duller with a pale blue head, olive back, whitish throat and buffy underparts.

This species has been split from Green-mantled Tanager Pipraeidea darwinii by the HBW and Birdlife International checklist on the basis of plumage variations in both males and females as well as differences in vocalisation .

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