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Blue-Gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

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Blue-Gray Tanager (Thraupis Episcopus)

Ignacio Yúfera

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today we have the lovely blue-gray tanager, an extremely prolific inhabitant of northern South America and southern Central America. delightfully enough, it's a bird I've actually seen, and even did a few quick field sketches of! this critter is divided into two distinct subgroups, with group cana from lower Central America, as well as west and immediately east of the Andes; the type group inhabits the rest of continental South America. the type group is distinguished by its white wingbars, and is hence called the white-edged form. with its lack of wing markings, group cana is called the blue-grey form, but isn't the type group, which i find a little confusing.

(they don't hold still ok. i had to go fast)

the reason i've been referring to them as "groups" and not "subspecies" is because these two groups are themselves divided into subspecies! these sub-subspecies are differentiated by the colors of their bodies and shoulders, ranging from rich turquoise to lavender to nearly white. all this is really rather complicated. the reason they take so many different forms is, I assume, a combination of their immense range and a genetic inclination towards fluctuating feather colors.

their aforementioned immense range is enabled by their niche - they're extreme generalists. anywhere that has trees but isn't closed-canopy is fair game, from forest edges to roadsides to riverbanks to public parks. they're very flexible foragers as well, with a wide variety of fruit and arthropods in their repertoire depending on what their immediate environment offers. essentially, they're so average that they're highly unique.

7 June 2026

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The blue-gray tanager has been one of my favorite childhood birds, and throughout my life; this bird is widespread and common throughout its large range, the blue-gray tanager is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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Blue-grey Tanager

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BOTD: Blue-gray Tanager

Photo: Doug Greenberg

"Common and widespread powder blue-gray bird of open and semi-open areas with larger trees and hedges, towns, villages, and gardens in tropical and subtropical regions. Mainly feeds at mid-upper levels in trees, eating fruit, and perches readily on phone wires. Rather plain but distinctive appearance, with beady dark eye and fairly stout bill. Populations east of the Andes in South America have broad white wing-bars and look very different."

- eBird