
Black-breasted Mountain-Tanagers
Cnemathraupis
Cnemathraupis is a small genus of mountain tanagers found in forest and woodland in the Andes of South America. The two species are uncommon and relatively large tanagers with a contrasting blue, yellow and black plumage (golden-backed mountain tanager also has some brown; black-chested mountain tanager some green).
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager
speciesCnemathraupis eximia

Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager
speciesCnemathraupis aureodorsalis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 339886.