Orange-throated tanager
| Orange-throated tanager | |
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| Genus: | Wetmorethraupis Lowery & O'Neill, 1964
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| Species: | W. sterrhopteron
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| Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron Lowery & O'Neill, 1964
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The orange-throated tanager (Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron) is a threatened species of bird found very locally in humid forests around the Ecuador-Peru border. It is the only member of the genus Wetmorethraupis, named after the ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. It is closely related to another genus of tanagers, Bangsia.
References
- Schulenberg, T., Stotz, D., Lane, D., O'Neill, J., & Parker III, T. (2007). Birds of Peru. Christopher Helm. ISBN 978-0-7136-8673-9
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