Rauenia bonariensis
The Blue-and-yellow Tanager (*Rauenia bonariensis*) is a strikingly colored and relatively widespread passerine of southern South America. Males are instantly recognizable with their glossy black cap, mask, and throat contrasting sharply with a bright blue mantle and upper back. Their underparts glow with a rich yellow to orange hue, complemented by black wings featuring a prominent white patch and a black tail with white outer rectrices. Females are more subdued, typically appearing olive-br...
This adaptable tanager favors open and semi-open habitats, including forest edges, shrublands, plantations, parks, and cultivated gardens. It can be found from sea level up to elevations of approximately 3000 meters in Andean foothills.
Primarily omnivorous, its diet consists mainly of fruits, various insects, and occasionally nectar. It is an important seed disperser for many native plant species.
The Blue-and-yellow Tanager is a diurnal species, often observed singly, in pairs, or small family groups, occasionally joining mixed-species foraging flocks. It exhibits a versatile foraging strategy, gleaning insects from foliage and bark, plucking fruits from shrubs and trees, and also searchi...
The Blue-and-yellow Tanager is widely distributed across temperate South America, primarily found in Argentina, Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its breeding range extends across the central and southern parts of Argentina, up through central and eastern Bolivia, and into parts of...
Least Concern
- Despite its common name, the Blue-and-yellow Tanager was previously classified in the genus *Thraupis*, then *Pipraeidea*, before being placed in its own genus *Rauenia* due to genetic distinctions. - Males possess striking ultraviolet plumage reflectance that is not fully visible to the human ...