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Blue-capped tanager
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The blue-capped tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Thraupis but is now the only species in the genus Sporathraupis.
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Blue-capped tanager | |
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In El Ávila National Park, Caracas, Venezuela | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Sporathraupis Ridgway, 1898 |
Species: | S. cyanocephala |
Binomial name | |
Sporathraupis cyanocephala (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | |
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Synonyms | |
Aglaia cyanocephala (protonym) |
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It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.