Spotted Tanager

The spotted tanager has green upperparts, white underparts and face with a bluish-gray wash, black lores, and greenish-yellow flanks. Its most conspicuous feature is the dense, black, scale-like speckling all over its body.

The spotted tanager is widespread across South America, where its range is somewhat uniquely spit into two disjunct portions in the Andes and the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazonian portion of the range spans Brazil, the Guianas, and southern Venezuela, while the Andean portion runs from northern Ecuador south through Peru into Bolivia. In the Amazon, it is most abundant in lowlands below 1,100 m (3,600 ft), but can be seen as high as 1,600 m (5,200 ft). In the Andes, it is largely known from elevations of 700–1,700 m (2,300–5,600 ft), although Peruvian birds have been seen up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft). It is a denizen of lowland tropical forests, including terra firme forest and savanna forest, in the Amazon, and montane forests, including mossy forests, in the Andes. Besides primary forest, they can also be seen in woodland edges, secondary forests, and plantations.