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The yellow-backed tanager is a relatively small tanager. It has a body mass of 12.9 g and a tail length of around 5 cm with the females having a slightly shorter tail. Like many tanagers, the yellow-backed tanager is sexually dimorphic, with vibrantly coloured males and duller females. While the males of different subspecies vary, most have a black head, neck, wings, and tail; a bright yellow throat, vent, and back; and a white breast, belly, and undertail coverts.
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When to see the Yellow-backed Tanager
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yellow-backed Tanager
The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Yellow-backed Tanager
The yellow-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela; also extreme eastern Panama in Central America. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.
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Easily confused with
Rufous-headed TanagerHemithraupis ruficapillaThe rufous-headed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
Guira TanagerHemithraupis guiraThe guira tanager is a small species measuring 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in) in length and weighing around 12 g (0.42 oz) on average.
Side by side: Guira Tanager vs Yellow-backed Tanager
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