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Blue-winged mountain tanager

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The blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in highland forest and woodland in the Andes of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, as well as a disjunct population in the Venezuelan Coastal Range. It is a common species and its populations appear to be stable.[1] It is generally bright yellow and black with blue to the wings and tail; some populations have a moss-green back.[2] In Bolivia and southernmost Peru, the rump is blue and the voice is very different;[2] this population is sometimes recognized as a separate species, the Bolivian mountain tanager (A. flavinucha).[3]

Blue-winged mountain tanager in northwest Ecuador

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Family:Thraupidae
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Blue-winged mountain tanager
In Ecuador
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Anisognathus
Species:
A. somptuosus
Binomial name
Anisognathus somptuosus
(Lesson, 1831)
Synonyms

Anisognathus flavinucha (Lesson, 1831)[1]

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