Green-capped Tanager

About the Green-capped Tanager

The green-capped tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to forest edge and gardens at altitudes of 1,450–2,200 m (4,760–7,220 ft) in Puno, Peru, and La Paz, Bolivia. It is fairly common and possibly spreading, but its small population has led to it being evaluated as Near Threatened by BirdLife International and IUCN. It closely resembles the widespread burnished-buff tanager, but its mantle is bluer (male) or greener (female), and its crown is greenish-buff. Its specific name commemorates the ornithologist Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee.

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Where the Green-capped Tanager lives

When to see the Green-capped Tanager

Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range

Easily confused with

Sira TanagerStilpnia phillipsiThe Sira tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Straw-backed TanagerStilpnia argyrofengesThe straw-backed tanager, also known as the green-throated tanager, is a species of bird in the tanager family. Lesser Antillean TanagerStilpnia cucullataLesser Antillean tanagers grow to a length of 14–15 cm (5.5–5.9 in).