Green-throated Tanager Tangara argyrofenges
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Catalan | tàngara gorjaverda |
Dutch | Groenkeeltangare |
English | Green-throated Tanager |
English (United States) | Green-throated Tanager |
French | Calliste à gorge verte |
French (France) | Calliste à gorge verte |
German | Grünkehltangare |
Japanese | クロハラフウキンチョウ |
Norwegian | platinatanagar |
Polish | tangarka jasnogrzbieta |
Russian | Зеленогорлая танагра |
Serbian | Zelenogrla tangara |
Slovak | tangara čiernokrídla |
Spanish | Tangara Dorsipajiza |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Tangara Goliverde |
Spanish (Peru) | Tangara de Garganta Verde |
Spanish (Spain) | Tangara dorsipajiza |
Swedish | grönstrupig tangara |
Turkish | Yeşil Boğazlı Tangara |
Ukrainian | Танагра зеленогорла |
Introduction
Also known as Straw-backed Tanager, Green-throated Tanager occurs very locally and apparently disjunctly in Ecuador, northern Peru, and north central Bolivia; two subspecies are recognized. Both sexes possess a straw-colored back and a green throat, but males are further distinctive in having a black cap and underparts from the breast down, as well as blackish wings. Females, in contrast, have dark green wings, a dusky green cap and nape, and grayish posterior underparts. Green-throated Tanager usually is encountered in pairs, and at least occasionally joins mixed-species flocks, foraging high in the trees, but occasionally lower and it sometimes visits clearings.