| Yellow-backed tanager | |
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| Hemithraupis flavicollis insignis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Hemithraupis |
| Species: | H. flavicollis |
| Binomial name | |
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Hemithraupis flavicollis (Vieillot, 1818) |
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The yellow-backed tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers.
It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname; also extreme eastern Panama in Central America. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.