Beryl-spangled tanager
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Species: | T. nigroviridis
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Tangara nigroviridis (Lafresnaye, 1843)
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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
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- Robert Ridgely & Guy Tudor, Birds of South America Vol. 1 (Univ. Texas Press, 1989).