Opal-crowned Tanager

It is found in the eastern Andes drainages to the western Amazon Basin in southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and Peru and a region of northwestern Bolivia; for Brazil in southwestern-western Amazonas state and Acre.

The Opal-crowned Tanager is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Opal-crowned Tanager (Tangara callophrys) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family, the tanagers. It is one of 49 species in the genus Tangara. Contents - * 1 Overview * 1. More

the leaves of an epiphyte, a female Opal-crowned Tanager on a nest. We finally descended at sunset, and did some owling in the almost instantaneous darkness. We find a Tawny-bellied Screech Owl. We could hear others, but they didn't come in in response to tapes. We paddled back to the lodge along a slough. We held our flashlights so the guides could see. Clouds of moths were attracted to the light, flying so close they tickled my wrist. Larger black shapes flitted through: bats eating the moths. More

The Opal-crowned Tanager (Tangara callophrys) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family, the tanagers. It is one of 49 species in the genus Tangara. Overview - It is found in the eastern Andes drainages to the western Amazon Basin in southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and Peru and a region of northwestern Bolivia; for Brazil in southwestern-western Amazonas state and Acre. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Thraupidae
Genus : Tangara
Species : callophrys
Authority : (Cabanis, 1849)