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Lemon-spectacled Tanager

Chlorothraupis olivacea

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestSmall · 39 g
Lemon-spectacled Tanager (Chlorothraupis olivacea), photo 1
Photo: Cameron Eckert · CC BY 4.0

What the Lemon-spectacled Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Lemon-spectacled Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, agitated calls · Esmeraldas: right bank Rio Santiago, above Estero Pote 7 km E Playa de Oro, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Lemon-spectacled Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Esmeraldas: right bank Rio Santiago, above Estero Pote 7 km E Playa de Oro, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Lemon-spectacled Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Esmeraldas: right bank Rio Santiago, above Estero Pote 7 km E Playa de Oro, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The adult lemon-spectacled tanager is about 17 cm (6.7 in) in length. It is very similar in appearance to the olive tanager but the male is a rather darker shade of dull olive-green with the underparts have less yellow on the throat. The female is also similar to the female olive tanager, the underparts being yellowish-olive, and the only clear distinction between the two species is in the yellow eye-ring, possessed by both sexes of this species; the lemon-spectacled tanager also resembles the ochre-breasted tanager, but that bird has a pale eye and the underparts are more ochraceous.

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When to see the Lemon-spectacled Tanager

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

Where to see the Lemon-spectacled Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Panama Ecuador

About the Lemon-spectacled Tanager

The lemon-spectacled tanager is a species of bird in the family Cardinalidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.

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

Easily confused with

Yellow-lored Tanager (Chlorothraupis frenata) Yellow-lored TanagerChlorothraupis frenataThe yellow-lored tanager is about 17 cm (6.7 in) in overall length. Ochre-breasted Tanager (Chlorothraupis stolzmanni) Ochre-breasted TanagerChlorothraupis stolzmanniThe ochre-breasted tanager grows to a length of about 18 cm (7 in). Carmiol's Tanager (Chlorothraupis carmioli) Carmiol's TanagerChlorothraupis carmioliThe adult Carmiol's tanager is about 17 cm (6.7 in) long and is an evenly coloured, robust bird.

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