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Saffron-crowned Tanager

La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.

 

Tangara xanthocephala

(Saffron-crowned Tanager / Tángara coronada)

 

Saffron-crowned Tanager is a brightly colored tanager with a distinctive yellow head. This species occurs through the Andes from Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia, and occupies humid montane forests and secondary woodlands.

 

Due to human destruction of habitat, it is hypothesized that the population numbers are decreasing. Like most Tangara tanagers, the Saffron-crowned is sexually monomorphic.

 

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Uploaded on October 16, 2021
Taken on April 18, 2018