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.
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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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What the Lemon-spectacled Tanager sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in February · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Yellow-lored TanagerChlorothraupis frenataThe yellow-lored tanager is about 17 cm (6.7 in) in overall length.
Ochre-breasted TanagerChlorothraupis stolzmanniThe ochre-breasted tanager grows to a length of about 18 cm (7 in).
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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