Blue-necked Tanager (Tangara cyanicollis)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest, subtropical and tropical dry and moist shrubland, subtropical and tropical high altitude shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
Molecular-genetic data indicate that this species is most closely related to Golden-hooded Tanager (Tangara larvata), which is sister-species to both present species and Masked Tanager (Tangara nigrocincta). Taxonomic status of isolated lowland subspecies melanogaster and albotibialis may be worthy of investigation.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

hannahiae (Cassin, 1865) - Northern Colombia (Sierra de Perij� and northern end of eastern Andes in Norte de Santander) and mountains of Venezuela (Andes from southern Lara south to T�chira, Sierra de Aroa, in Yaracuy, coastal cordillera in Carabobo and Aragua, and interior cordillera in northern Gu�rico).
granadensis (von Berlepsch, 1884) - Andes of Colombia (western range south to Munchique area of Cauca, central range and western slope of eastern range from Santander south to north-western Cundinamarca).
caeruleocephala (Swainson, 1838) - Colombia (head of Magdalena Valley in Huila, and eastern Andes in Boyac� and Cundinamarca and, on eastern slope, south to Nari�o) southern on eastern slope to northern Peru (south to La Libertad and, Huallaga Valley, in northern San Mart��n).
cyanopygia (von Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884) - Entire western slope of Andes in Ecuador.
cyanicollis (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) - Eastern slope of Andes in Peru (from Hu�nuco) south to Bolivia (to Cochabamba).
melanogaster Cherrie & Reichenberger, 1923 - Isolated population in lowlands of Amazon drainage in central Brazil (northern Mato Grosso and southern Par�); recorded also in central Bolivia (Santa Cruz).
albotibialis Traylor, 1950 - Veadeiros (Goi�s), in east-central Brazil.

References
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