Brassy-breasted Tanager Tangara desmaresti Scientific name definitions

Megan Morris and Kevin J. Burns
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 27, 2012

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Recommended Citation

Morris, M. and K. J. Burns (2020). Brassy-breasted Tanager (Tangara desmaresti), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.brbtan1.01
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