White-capped Tanager
Sericossypha albocristata(de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1843)
English (US) White-capped Tanager
The White-capped Tanager (Sericossypha albocristata) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: locally in Andes of Colombia and western Venezuela to southeastern PeruRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Sericossypha albocristata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- White-capped Tanager
- Described by
- (de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1843)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tanagra (Lamprotes) albo-cristatus
- Described by
- (de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1843)
- Type locality
- Colombia.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 6 p.132
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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