Yellow-backed tanager | |
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Hemithraupis flavicollis insignis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Hemithraupis |
Species: | H. flavicollis |
Binomial name | |
Hemithraupis flavicollis (Vieillot, 1818) |
The yellow-backed tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers.
It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname; also extreme eastern Panama in Central America. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.