Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest, subtropical and tropical dry and moist shrubland. From sea-level - 2,500 m, occasionally up to 3,250 m.
Fawn-breasted Tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota) [XC551884]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Forestal Belga (Cruce Caballero), San Pedro, Misiones, Argentina (song)
Fawn-breasted Tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota) [XC829264]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Mindo (near San Carlos), Cant\u00f3n San Miguel de Los Bancos, Pichincha, Ecuador (song)
Subspecies
Systematic position of present species has been much debated. Recent DNA evidence suggests that it is properly placed in present family and is closely related, and probably sister, to Blue-and-yellow Tanager (Pipraeidea bonariensis). Taxonomic status of south-eastern populations may be worthy of investigation.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
venezuelensis Sclater, PL, 1857 - Mountains of north, north-east, south-western and southern Venezuela (coastal range from Carabobo east to Distrito Federal and Miranda; Sucre and Monagas; locally in Andes from north-western and southern Lara south to Táchira; Cerro Yaví and Cerro Taracuniña, in northern and southern Amazonas; probably also mountains of south-eastern Bolívar), and west, central and eastern Andes of Colombia southern on both slopes to Ecuador, Peru (southern on western slope to Lima, on eastern slope throughout), Bolivia and north-western Argentina (south to Tucumán and Catamarca).
melanonota (Vieillot, 1819) - Southern and south-eastern Brazil (locally south-western Mato Grosso; and southern Bahia and eastern Minas Gerais south to central Rio Grande do Sul), eastern Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina (Misiones and northern Corrientes; north-eastern Buenos Aires south to Punta Indio) and southern Uruguay.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet