Silver-throated Tanager

Tangara icterocephala (Bonaparte, 1851)

Silver-throated Tanager, Tangara icterocephala, is a tanager of Middle America and South America, breeding from Costa Rica to Ecuador. It belongs to the family Thraupidae in the order Passeriformes. Its range also includes Panama, Colombia and northeastern Peru. It lives in mossy forest, montane forest, tropical evergreen lowland forest, forest margins, tall secondary growth, and altered areas where trees and forest remain. Adult males are chiefly bright yellow, with a silvery white throat, a black line above the throat on the cheeks, dark streaks on the back, and green on the wing and tail edges.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: Costa Rica to Ecuador