Chestnut-backed Tanager

Chestnut-backed Tanager
Chestnut-backed Tanager
male
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. preciosa
Binomial name
Tangara preciosa
(Cabanis, 1850)

The Chestnut-backed Tanager (Tangara preciosa) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil, north-eastern Argentina, eastern Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is closely related to the rarer Black-backed Tanager, and females of the two species are inseparable.

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