#1368 · 🐦 birds

Blue-gray Tanager

🇳🇱 Bisschopstangare ·Thraupis episcopus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Nelson Apolo · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Gabriel Camilo Jaramillo Giraldo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Mario Urrutia · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Justyn Stahl · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Esteban Poveda · CC BY 4.0
7. © Esteban Poveda · CC BY 4.0
8. © Ken Chamberlain · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © David W K Foster · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. © Esteban Poveda · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The blue-gray tanager ( Thraupis episcopus ) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. It has been introduced to Lima (Peru). On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 30,250iNaturalist observations
weight 3.1 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
30,250 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 3 g.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).