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Blue-and-gold Tanager
- Scientific name
- Bangsia arcaei
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Habitat
- Forest mixed
- Wing shape
- Rounded
- Tail shape
- Rounded
Where it came from
The Blue-and-gold Tanager was first described by ornithologist P.L. Sclater in 1860. It belongs to the genus Bangsia, a group of tanagers named after the American naturalist Outram Bangs. This species is native to the humid forests of Costa Rica and western Panama, where it thrives in the dense understory of tropical montane regions.
The bird is characterized by its vivid cobalt blue and golden-yellow plumage, featuring a distinctively rounded wing and tail shape that reflects its evolution for short-burst flights within dense forest cover. Its taxonomic discovery occurred during a period of intense European exploration into the neotropics, where such specimens were highly sought after by natural history museums to catalog the biodiversity of Central America.
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