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title: "Turquoise Tanager"
description: "Tangara mexicana — Uccelli. The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/turquoise-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Turquoise Tanager

> Tangara mexicana — Uccelli. The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized passerine  bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

- Scientific name: *Tangara mexicana*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 1128
- Wikidata: [Q2669189](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2669189)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9551](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9551)

## Names

- en: Turquoise Tanager
- de: Türkistangare
- es: Tángara turquesa
- fr: Calliste diable-enrhumé
- nl: Turkooistangare
- pt: Saíra-de-bando
- pl: Tangarka żółtobrzucha

## Countries with the most observations

BR (255), EC (202), PE (192), CO (124), TT (96), GF (83), BO (48), GY (20), SR (12), VE (3)

## Summary

The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized passerine  bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is a resident bird from Trinidad, much of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, and south to Bolivia. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Mexico. It is restricted to areas with humid forest, with its primary distribution being the Amazon. It was formerly treated as being conspecific with the white-bellied tanager which is found in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil.
It occurs in forest, woodland, and cultivation. The bulky cup nest is built in a tree or shrub, and the female incubates three brown…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise_tanager

## Photo

![Turquoise Tanager](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/turquoise-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: NINA WENÓLI · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218670183

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/turquoise-tanager?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).