Yellow-winged Tanager
Thraupis abbas
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,973
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
Description
The yellow-winged tanager (Thraupis abbas) is a neotropical member of the tanager family. It is of average size for a tanager, about 18-centimetre (7.1 in) long. It is distinguished by the yellow patches on its dusky green wings, marking an otherwise dark bluish and gray body. It has a pale lavender tone on its throat and breast. The juvenile lacks this color, but has an olive-green head and upper back.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yellow-winged tanager”.