Lacrimose mountain tanager

Lacrimose mountain tanager
	At Manizales, Colombia
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Anisognathus
Species:	A. lacrymosus
Binomial name
	Anisognathus lacrymosus; (du Bus, 1846)

The lacrimose mountain tanager (Anisognathus lacrymosus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Andean highland forest from Venezuela, through Colombia and Ecuador, to Peru. Some of its 11 subspecies are quite distinctive and A. l. yariguierum was only scientifically described in 2010.[2][3]

A. l. pallididorsalis is a pale subspecies from the Perijá Mountains

References

BirdLife International (2012). "Anisognathus lacrymosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
Ridgely, R.S.; G. Tudor (2009). Birds of South America, Passerines. pp. 606–607. ISBN 978-1-408-11342-4.
Donegan, T.M.; J.E. Avendaño (2010). "A new subspecies of mountain tanager in the Anisognathus lacrymosus complex from the Yariguíes Mountains of Colombia". Bull. B.O.C. 130 (1): 13–32.

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[1] BirdLife International (2012). "Anisognathus lacrymosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url

[Ridgely2009-2] Ridgely, R.S.; G. Tudor (2009). Birds of South America, Passerines. pp. 606–607. ISBN 978-1-408-11342-4.

[3] Donegan, T.M.; J.E. Avendaño (2010). "A new subspecies of mountain tanager in the Anisognathus lacrymosus complex from the Yariguíes Mountains of Colombia". Bull. B.O.C. 130 (1): 13–32.