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Fawn-breasted Tanager

Pipraeidea melanonota

Classification

Class
Aves

The fawn-breasted tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota) is a species of tanager with a blue head and yellow breast. It occurs in the Andes of northwestern Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, as well as in the highlands of northeastern Argentina, south Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Taxonomy The fawn-breasted tanager was described in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot from a specimen obtained in Brazil.

Distribution

(c) Pipraeidea_melanonota.jpg: Dario Sanches from SÃO PAULO, BRASIL. derivative work: Berichard, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 10,665Peru · 1,586