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Blue-gray Tanager
Esteban Poveda, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Songbirds & other perching birds

Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishBlue-gray Tanager
DutchBisschopstangare
SpanishTangara azulgrís
Chinese灰蓝裸鼻雀
Sranan Tongoblawtyi
Sranan Tongoblawforki
Scientific nameThraupis episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766)

About this species

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) and Florida (United States). On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyThraupidae
GenusThraupis

In Suriname

3,811Records in Suriname
82iNaturalist observations
1866First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo980
  • Commewijne899
  • Para688
  • Sipaliwini599
  • Brokopondo201
  • Wanica71
  • Nickerie67
  • Saramacca56
  • Marowijne12
  • Coronie11

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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