Silver-backed tanager

Silver-backed tanager
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. viridicollis
Binomial name
Tangara viridicollis
(Taczanowski, 1884)

The silver-backed tanager (Tangara viridicollis), also known as the silvery tanager, is a species of bird in the tanager family. It is found in humid highland forests in southern Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It is regularly seen at Machu Picchu.

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