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The white-winged shrike-tanager is about 16 cm (6.3 in) long. The male has a black head with a patch of yellowish olive at the front of the crown. The back and rump are yellowish ochre, and the underparts are yellow apart from an olive bib at the throat. The wings and tail are blackish, and there is a large patch of white on the outer wing-coverts. The female is much more uniform in colour, being brownish ochre above, the wings and tail being darker than the other upper parts, and yellowish ochre below, with an especially yellow belly.
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When to see the White-winged Shrike-Tanager
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the White-winged Shrike-Tanager
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the White-winged Shrike-Tanager
The white-winged shrike-tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Two subspecies are recognised: L. v. versicolor from eastern Peru, western Brazil, and northern Bolivia, and L. v. parvus from eastern and central Brazil and northeastern Bolivia.
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Easily confused with
White-throated Shrike-TanagerLanio leucothoraxThe white-throated shrike-tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
Black-throated Shrike-TanagerLanio aurantiusThe black-throated shrike-tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
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