Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

What the Blue-winged Mountain Tanager sounds like

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW Las Orchideas, above "Cabañas Yankuam", Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW Las Orchideas, above "Cabañas Yankuam", Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, agitated calls · Cotopaxi: Costa Azul, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

The blue-winged mountain tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in highland forest and woodland in the Andes of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, as well as a disjunct population in the Venezuelan Coastal Range. It is a common species and its populations appear to be stable. It is generally bright yellow and black with blue to the wings and tail; some populations have a moss-green back. In Bolivia and southernmost Peru, the rump is blue and the voice is very different; this population is sometimes recognized as a separate species, the Bolivian mountain tanager.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Scarlet-bellied Mountain TanagerAnisognathus igniventrisThe scarlet-bellied mountain tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Lacrimose Mountain TanagerAnisognathus lacrymosusThe lacrimose mountain tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Black-chinned Mountain TanagerAnisognathus notabilisThe black-chinned mountain tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.