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Swallow tanager
Female
Male in Paraná, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Thraupidae
Genus:
Tersina

Vieillot, 1819
Species:
T. viridis
Binomial name
Tersina viridis
(Illiger, 1811)

Tersina is a genus of tanager. It contains a single species, the swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) . It is found widely throughout South America, from Panama to n. Argentina.

The species is somewhat dimorphic, as the female is a yellow-green, and the male a brighter light emerald-green, with a small deep black face and upper throat patch.

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN

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