Lacrimose mountain tanager

Lacrimose mountain tanager
At Manizales, Colombia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Thraupidae
Genus:Anisognathus
Species: A. lacrymosus
Binomial name
Anisognathus lacrymosus
(du Bus, 1846)

The lacrimose mountain tanager (Anisognathus lacrymosus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Andean highland forest from Venezuela, through Colombia and Ecuador, to Peru. Some of its 11 subspecies are quite distinctive, and A. l. yariguierum was only scientifically described in 2010.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Anisognathus lacrymosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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