Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (32)
- Subspecies (13)
Text last updated April 15, 2014
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Bulgarian | Лазурна танагра |
| Catalan | tàngara blavosa |
| Croatian | plavetna tangara |
| Dutch | Bisschopstangare |
| English | Blue-gray Tanager |
| English (AVI) | Blue-grey Tanager |
| English (United States) | Blue-gray Tanager |
| Finnish | piispatangara |
| French | Tangara évêque |
| French (Canada) | Tangara évêque |
| German | Bischofstangare |
| Icelandic | Blátáni |
| Japanese | ソライロフウキンチョウ |
| Norwegian | bispetanagar |
| Polish | tangarka niebieska |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | sanhaço-da-amazônia |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Sanhaço-da-amazónia |
| Russian | Сине-серая танагра |
| Serbian | Svetloplava tangara |
| Slovak | tangara modrá |
| Spanish | Tangara Azuleja |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | Tangara Azuleja |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Tangara Azuleja |
| Spanish (Honduras) | Tanagra Azulejo |
| Spanish (Mexico) | Tangara Azulgris |
| Spanish (Panama) | Tangara Azuleja |
| Spanish (Peru) | Tangara Azuleja |
| Spanish (Spain) | Tangara azuleja |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | Azulejo de Jardín |
| Swedish | blågrå tangara |
| Turkish | Gökçe Tangara |
| Ukrainian | Саяка блакитна |
Thraupis episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
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Introduction
The Blue-gray Tanager is one of the most widespread, and ubiquitous, birds of the humid lowland neotropics. At almost any location between southeastern Mexico and central South America, it is a familiar presence at forest edge, in second-growth, along roads and rivers, in plantations, and even in urban parks and gardens. Blue-gray Tanagers prefer semi-open habitats; they are not found in interior of closed canopy forest, but they can quickly colonize fresh clearings. They are flexible as well in their diet, eating a wide variety of fruit, and also foraging for arthropods. Blue-gray Tanagers typically travel in pairs or small single-species flocks. They may briefly join mixed-species flocks, but do not travel with such flocks; however, Blue-gray Tanagers often join mixed-species aggregations of birds that are attracted to fruiting trees. Adult Blue-gray Tanagers are predominately light bluish gray, with brighter blue margins to the wings and tail. The wing coverts are bright blue on the subspecies that occur from Mexico to northern South America, and in South America west of the Andes; other subspecies have more or less contrasting, whitish wing coverts. The juveniles of all subspecies are duller in color, and closely resemble the Sayaca Tanager (Thraupis sayaca) of eastern South America.
Subspecies
Blue-gray Tanager (Blue-gray) Thraupis episcopus [cana Group]
Distribution
Thraupis episcopus cana (Swainson, 1835)
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- cana
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Thraupis episcopus caesitia Wetmore, 1959
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- caesitia
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Thraupis episcopus cumatilis Wetmore, 1957
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- cumatilis
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Thraupis episcopus nesophila Riley, 1912
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- nesophila / nesophilus
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Thraupis episcopus berlepschi (de Dalmas, 1900)
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- berlepschi
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Thraupis episcopus quaesita Bangs & Noble, 1918
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- quaesita
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Blue-gray Tanager (White-edged) Thraupis episcopus [episcopus Group]
Distribution
Thraupis episcopus leucoptera (Sclater, 1886)
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- leucoptera
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Thraupis episcopus mediana Zimmer, 1944
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- mediana
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Thraupis episcopus coelestis (Spix, 1825)
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- coelestis
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Thraupis episcopus episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
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Thraupis episcopus caerulea Zimmer, 1929
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- caerulea
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Thraupis episcopus major (Berlepsch & Sztolcman, 1896)
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- major
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Thraupis episcopus urubambae Zimmer, 1944
Definitions
- THRAUPIS
- episcopus
- Episcopus
- urubambae / urubambensis
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