How big is a Yellow-green Tanager?

The Yellow-green Tanager is a small sized bird weighing about 25 g.

Where can you see a Yellow-green Tanager?

The Yellow-green Tanager occurs in 2 countries, including Colombia and Ecuador.

What does a Yellow-green Tanager sound like?

You can listen to a field recording of the Yellow-green Tanager on this page, contributed to xeno-canto under open licences.

What birds look similar to a Yellow-green Tanager?

The Yellow-green Tanager is most easily confused with the Golden-chested Tanager, the Blue-and-gold Tanager and the Gold-ringed Tanager.

Is the Yellow-green Tanager endangered?

The Yellow-green Tanager is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Yellow-green Tanager

Bangsia flavovirens

Tanagers and Allies · Passeriformes · Legendary

The Yellow-green Tanager (Bangsia flavovirens) is a legendary tanager found in 2 countries, weighing about 25 g. The yellow-green tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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About the Yellow-green Tanager

The yellow-green tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It was formerly known as the yellow-green bush tanager or yellow-green chlorospingus as it used to be placed in the genus Chlorospingus with other bush tanagers. Chlorospingus as a whole was formerly placed in the tanager family Thraupidae, but was transferred to the New World sparrows when genetic analysis of two Chlorospingus species revealed they were embedded within the latter family. However, more recently, molecular analysis of additional Chlorospingus species found that the yellow-green tanager is not a member of Chlorospingus but a true tanager after all, most closely related to the blue-and-gold tanager, so the…

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What the Yellow-green Tanager sounds like

Recording: Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Where it lives

Colombia Ecuador

When to see it

Best months: January, February, March, April, May, July, August, September, October, November, December, with peak activity in November. It is a resident species across most of its range.

Easily confused with

Quick questions

What does a Yellow-green Tanager look like?: The yellow-green tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
How big is a Yellow-green Tanager?: The Yellow-green Tanager is a small sized bird weighing about 25 g.
Where can you see a Yellow-green Tanager?: The Yellow-green Tanager occurs in 2 countries, including Colombia and Ecuador.
What does a Yellow-green Tanager sound like?: You can listen to a field recording of the Yellow-green Tanager on this page, contributed to xeno-canto under open licences.
What birds look similar to a Yellow-green Tanager?: The Yellow-green Tanager is most easily confused with the Golden-chested Tanager, the Blue-and-gold Tanager and the Gold-ringed Tanager.
Is the Yellow-green Tanager endangered?: The Yellow-green Tanager is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

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