Blue-grey Tanager
Thraupis episcopus
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Genus
- Thraupis
- eBird Code
- bugtan
Vocalizations
Subspecies (14)
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Thraupis episcopus berlepschi
Tobago
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Thraupis episcopus caerulea
southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru (south to Huánuco)
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Thraupis episcopus caesitia
Caribbean coast of western Panama (Escudo de Veraguas)
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Thraupis episcopus cana
southeastern Mexico (San Luis Potosí) to northern Venezuela; Pearl Islands
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Thraupis episcopus coelestis
southeastern Colombia southward to western Brazil and central Peru
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Thraupis episcopus cumatilis
Coiba Island (off Pacific coast of Panama)
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Thraupis episcopus ehrenreichi
Rio Purús (northwestern Brazil)
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Thraupis episcopus episcopus
the Guianas and northern Brazil east of Rio Jamundá to northwest Maranhão, and southward to southeast Pará and northern Mato Grosso
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Thraupis episcopus leucoptera
east slope of eastern Andes of central Colombia
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Thraupis episcopus major
central Peru (Chanchamayo Valley of Ica)
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Thraupis episcopus mediana
southeastern Colombia to far northern Bolivia and northern Brazil (eastward to Rio Jamundá, and south of the Amazon River between Rio Madeira and Rio Tapajós)
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Thraupis episcopus nesophila
far eastern Colombia to eastern Venezuela and Trinidad
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Thraupis episcopus quaesita
Pacific slope of southwestern Colombia, western Ecuador, and northwestern Peru
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Thraupis episcopus urubambae
southeastern Peru (Urubamba Valley and Amazonian drainage)
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.