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Beryl-spangled tanager

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Beryl-spangled tanager
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T. nigroviridis
Binomial name
Tangara nigroviridis
(Lafresnaye, 1843)

The beryl-spangled tanager (Tangara nigroviridis) is a colourful tanager of the Andean cloud forests.

Its range is from Venezuela to Bolivia. Its nest is a mossy cup in a tree fork; in Ecuador west slope, eggs in early March.

References

  • Robert Ridgely & Guy Tudor, Birds of South America Vol. 1 (Univ. Texas Press, 1989).