| Green-and-gold tanager | |
|---|---|
.jpg) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Tangara |
| Species: | T. schrankii |
| Binomial name | |
| Tangara schrankii (Spix, 1825) | |
 | |
Thegreen-and-gold tanager (Tangara schrankii) is a species ofbird in the familyThraupidae, thetanagers. It is one of 27 species in the genusTangara.
It is found in the western and central Amazon Basin in easternVenezuela,Colombia,Ecuador,Peru, centralBolivia, and northwesternBrazil.Its naturalhabitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowlandforests and subtropical or tropicalswamps.
The green-and-gold tanager's range is almost all of the westernAmazon Basin to the higher elevation mountain foothills of the easternAndes. Thecontiguous range has three extensions; a southerly extension from southern Peru into central Bolivia; it is about 2000 km long and 400 km wide, and in Bolivia covers the upper reaches of tributary rivers to the northeast flowingMadeira River. A 1300 km range extension goes north to the southeastern Venezuela higher elevation border region, from theRio Negro of the Amazon, beyond the upper reaches of Venezuela's Caribbean north-flowingOrinoco River. The third easterly extension goes in the central Basin and ends at only the middle reaches of the northerly flowingTapajós River, a stretch of 800 km of the 3000 km long river.
