Blue-winged mountain tanager

The blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in highland forest and woodland in the Andes of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, as well as a disjunct population in the Venezuelan Coastal Range. It is a common species and its populations appear to be stable.^[1] It is generally bright yellow and black with blue to the wings and tail; some populations have a moss-green back.^[2] In Bolivia and southernmost Peru, the rump is blue and the voice is very different;^[2] this population is sometimes recognized as a separate species, the Bolivian mountain tanager (A. flavinucha).^[3]

Blue-winged mountain tanager in northwest Ecuador

Blue-winged mountain tanager
In Ecuador
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Anisognathus
Species:	A. somptuosus
Binomial name
Anisognathus somptuosus (Lesson, 1831)
Synonyms
Anisognathus flavinucha (Lesson, 1831)[1]