Yellow-green Tanager (Bangsia flavovirens)
About the Yellow-green Tanager
The yellow-green tanager (Bangsia flavovirens) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It was formerly known as the yellow-green bush tanager or yellow-green chlorospingus as it used to be placed in the genus Chlorospingus with other bush tanagers. Chlorospingus as a whole was formerly placed in the tanager family Thraupidae, but was transferred to the New World sparrows when genetic analysis of two Chlorospingus species revealed they were embedded within the latter family. However, more recently, molecular analysis of additional Chlorospingus species found that the yellow-green tanager is not a member of Chlorospingus (or any other New World sparrow) but a true tanager after all, most closely related to the blue-and-gold tanager, so the species was returned to Thraupidae and placed in the genus Bangsia.
A real field recording of the Yellow-green Tanager. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Ecuador · xeno-canto lists 17 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Black-and-gold TanagerBangsia melanochlamysprofile
- Blue-and-gold TanagerBangsia arcaeiprofile
- Gold-ringed TanagerBangsia aureocinctaprofile
- Golden-chested TanagerBangsia rothschildirecording
- Moss-backed TanagerBangsia edwardsiprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.