Blue-backed Tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1819)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 600 m.

Range (Guide)

Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela.

Eastern Venezuela (R Yuru�n; sight records also at San Isidro and foothills of Sierra de Lema) eastern across central Guyana and Suriname to French Guiana; also several tiny and presumably isolated populations in central Amazonian Brazil (one north of Manaus, the other south of R Amazon).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

Blue-backed Tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus) [XC450780]
by Brice de la Croix from Roura, Crique Saint-Georges, French Guiana (song)

Blue-backed Tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus) [XC617536]
by Alexandre Renaudier from Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Brazil (uncertain)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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