The sayaca tanager (''Thraupis sayaca'') is a species of

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in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is a common resident in northeastern, central, and southeastern

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( pt, sanhaço or ), and

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, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina (where they are known as or ). A few are recorded from far southeastern Peru, but its status there is unclear, in part due to the potential of confusion with the very similar juveniles of the blue-grey tanager. It occurs in a wide range of open to semiopen habitats, but generally avoids the interior of dense forest (such as the Amazon Rainforest, Amazon). This tanager visits farmland in search of orchards and adapts readily to urban environment, as long as some arboreal cover and a supply of fruits are available. It feeds on flowers, buds, and insects, and this omnivorous lifestyle has helped it to become perhaps the most — or one of the most — common urban birds in southeastern Brazil, along with the rufous-bellied thrush.

Taxonomy

The sayaca tanager was Species description, formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 12th edition of Systema Naturae, 12th edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Tanagra sayaca''. In 1648, well before the introduction of the binomial system, the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave had described the sayaca tanager as the ''Sayacu'' in his ''Historia Naturalis Brasiliae''. The specific epithet is from Tupi language, Tupi ''Saí-acú'' meaning "very lively"; it was applied to various tanagers. The type locality (biology), type locality is the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. This species is now placed in the genus ''Thraupis'' that was introduced by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1826. Three subspecies are recognised: * '' T. s. boliviana'' James Bond (ornithologist), Bond & Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, Meyer de Schauensee, 1941 – north Bolivia * ''T. s. obscura'' Elsie Naumburg, Naumburg, 1924 – central, south Bolivia to west Argentina * ''T. s. sayaca'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 1766) – east, south Brazil, Paraguay, northeast Argentina and Uruguay

References

External links

Sayaca Tanager videos
on the Internet Bird Collection

(for Uruguay) with RangeMap
Sayaca Tanager photo gallery
VIREO

Sayaca Tanager: "Sanhaço"

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