Listen to the Blue-gray tanager
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About the Blue-gray tanager
The Blue-gray tanager is a bird in the family Thraupidae (order Passeriformes). Adults weigh around 3 g.
What does the Blue-gray tanager sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call, song and calls. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. It has been introduced to Lima (Peru) and Florida (United States). On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean.
Related birds in the genus Thraupis
More from the family Thraupidae
Paradise tanager
Tangara chilensis
Saffron finch
Sicalis flaveola
Silver-throated tanager
Tangara icterocephala
Magpie tanager
Cissopis leverianus
Plushcap
Catamblyrhynchus diadema
Golden tanager
Tangara arthus
Green honeycreeper
Chlorophanes spiza
Emerald tanager
Tangara florida
Yellow-bellied dacnis
Dacnis flaviventer
Beryl-spangled tanager
Tangara nigroviridis
Bay-headed tanager
Tangara gyrola
Frequently asked questions
What does a Blue-gray tanager sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the Blue-gray tanager on this page, including its call, song and calls. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
What family does the Blue-gray tanager belong to?
The Blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) belongs to the family Thraupidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Call, song · Zamora-Chinchipe: SE Zumba: turnoff to Chito on La Chonta… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Calls · Manabí: Río Ayampe, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q883102 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Blue-gray tanager – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Charlie Jackson – CC BY 2.0