- Where to see one
- 5 U.S. zoos in our directory hold blue-gray tanager, confirmed against each zoo's own animal list.
Conservation status
Not Evaluated
This species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List, so it sits outside the threat scale entirely.
About the blue-gray tanager
The blue-gray tanager is a medium-sized South American songbird, ranging from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil and across most of the Amazon Basin. Measuring 16-18 cm (6.3-7.1 in) and weighing 30-40 g (1.1-1.4 oz), it has a light bluish head and underparts, darker blue upperparts and a shoulder patch in a different shade of blue. It lives in open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens, thriving around human habitation. Restless, noisy and confiding, it is usually found in pairs and feeds mainly on fruit, with some nectar and insects. The female incubates the usually two eggs for 14 days in a deep cup nest.
Blue-gray Tanager facts
- On Trinidad and Tobago the bird is called blue jean.
- Fourteen subspecies differ in the exact hue of blue and in the shoulder patch.
- Its Latin species name episcopus means bishop.
- It has been introduced to Lima in Peru and to Florida in the United States.
Where to see blue-gray tanager in the U.S.
5 zoos across 5 states
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Illinois· 1
Kansas· 1
Kentucky· 1
New York· 1
Ohio· 1
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