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Location: Photographed at Inca Pueblo Hotel, Machu Picchu, Peru.

Tangara cyanicollis

[edit] Identification

12 cm. Blue hood and throat, turquoise-green wing coverts, wing edges, and rump, underparts are black, violet, or blue, black bill, legs and feet. Juvenile - brownish grey.

[edit] Distribution

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 7 subspecies.

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes and lowland forest.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes fruits, berries, flower blossoms and insects.

The female builds a cup nest of moss; 2 white eggs with brown spotting are laid. Incubation is 13-14 days and the chicks fledge after 15-16 days.

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