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Blue-grey Tanager Tangara episcopus
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Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
The Blue-grey Tanager is the northern and
western replacement of the Sayaca Tanager T. sayaca to which
it is very similar. Indeed, they are so similar that a case could be made for lumping them together, however their
voices are different.
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There are 14 subspecies which
tend to have different shades of blue to white on the shoulders. The first photo is of a bird at Caxiuanã,
Pará so is probably the nominate subspecies, T. e. episcopus. Here we can see that the shoulder is almost
white and the wings are noticeably blue while the rest of the bird is indeed blue-grey. |
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The second photo was taken in Brazil just south of the Amazon and just across from
the Peruvian border so it is probably T. e. coelestis and shows a very large white shoulder patch and
wing-bar.
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Photos 3 and 4 were taken on the western cordillera of the Colombian Andes and is
the sub-species T. e. cana showing no white on the wing coverts.
Photo 5 was taken in San Martin, Peru and Photo 6 in Napo, Ecuador
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Its range stretches from southern Mexico to south of the Amazon river. See the
distribution map at xeno-canto. It is
found in a variety of habitats from forest borders to gardens and it eats on both fruit and insects. You can see an
insect being hunted in photo 5.
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