Grey-headed tanager

Grey-headed tanager
At Manizales, Caldas, Colombia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Eucometis
P.L. Sclater, 1856
Species: E. penicillata
Binomial name
Eucometis penicillata
(Spix, 1825)

The grey-headed tanager (Eucometis penicillata) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the only one in the genus Eucometis.

It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

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