Yellow-winged Tanager

Thraupis abbas

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestSmall · 45 g

When to see the Yellow-winged Tanager

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

Where to see the Yellow-winged Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Yellow-winged Tanager

The yellow-winged tanager is a neotropical member of the tanager family. It is of average size for a tanager, about 18-centimetre (7.1 in) long. It is distinguished by the yellow patches on its dusky green wings, marking an otherwise dark bluish and gray body. It has a pale lavender tone on its throat and breast. The juvenile lacks this color, but has an olive-green head and upper back.

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