Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala
Saffron-crowned Tanager, Guango Lodge, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image Guango Lodge, Ecuador
November 2019

The Saffron-crowned Tanager is distributed in the Andes from Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to Bolivia. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in humid forest at between 1,000 and 2,600 metres.

Saffron-crowned Tanager, Guango Lodge, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image It is similar in appearance to Flame-faced Tanager T. parzudakii but this latter has no streaking on its black back and has pale bluish wing-coverts.

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