Blue-and-gold Tanager

When to see the Blue-and-gold Tanager

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-and-gold Tanager

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

About the Blue-and-gold Tanager

The blue-and-gold tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is native to the Talamancan montane forests and the Serranía del Darién. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Easily confused with

Gold-ringed TanagerBangsia aureocinctaLike the other Bangsia tanagers, the gold-ringed tanager is a plump bird with a relatively short tail. Golden-chested TanagerBangsia rothschildiThe golden-chested tanager is an attractive glossy dark navy-blue to black tinged blue-violet bird, featuring bright golden-yellow patches on the chest, the lower-belly to the crissum, and on the underwing coverts, which contrasts with the blackish flight-feathers. Black-and-gold TanagerBangsia melanochlamysThe black-and-gold tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, which is endemic to Colombia.