Blue-and-yellow tanager

The blue-and-yellow tanager (Rauenia bonariensis) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Blue-and-yellow tanager
Male of the black-backed nominate subspecies
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Rauenia Wolters, 1980
Species:	R. bonariensis
Binomial name
Rauenia bonariensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Non-Breeding   Year-round
Synonyms
Thraupis bonariensis

It is found in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, extreme northern border Chile, and Andean Peru and Ecuador. Some southern region birds migrate northeastwards in the austral winter into eastern Bolivia and northeastern Argentina; also Paraguay where the birds are only migratory non-breeding residents.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Thraupis. It was moved to Pipraeidea based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014.^[2][3][4] It was moved to Rauenia based on the study published in 2020. It is monotypic in that genus.

Gallery

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  Males from the Andes, such as this individual from Ecuador, have a green back.
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  A male Rauenia bonariensis darwinii, characterized by green upper back