Silver-backed Tanager Tangara viridicollis Silvery Tanager Stilpnia viridicollis

Silver-backed Tanager Tangara viridicollis
(aka Silvery Tanager Stilpnia viridicollis)

San Martin, Peru
October 2018

The Silver-backed Tanager is distributed in the extreme south of Ecuador and in Peru mainly on the east slope of the Andes but also in the dry north-west. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found both in the borders of humid forest and in semi-arid scrub.

These photos are of males. Females are quite distinct being mostly pale green with a coppery wash to the head and a whitish belly.

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