Black-headed Tanager
Stilpnia cyanoptera(Swainson, WJ, 1834)
English (US) Black-headed Tanager
The Black-headed Tanager (Stilpnia cyanoptera) 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: mountains of northern Colombia to northern VenezuelaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Stilpnia cyanoptera
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-headed Tanager
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1834)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- A[glaia] cyanoptera
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1834)
- Type locality
- no locality ; vicinity of Caracas, Venezuela, suggested by Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 174.
- Original description
- The ornithological drawings of William Swainson (series 1) ; the birds of Brazil 1 pl.8
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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