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Dacnis
Sign in to saveDacnis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyThraupidae
Observations recorded387,766
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 41
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Collections
- CUMV, CLO, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MSU, LSUMZ, GNM
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Thraupidae
- Image
- Saí-azul Macho (Dacnis cayana) - Blue Dacnis Male.jpg
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- Dacnis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Dacnis
- topic's main category
- Category:Dacnis
- Commons gallery
- Dacnis
- taxon range
- Brazil
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Dacnis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
These are highly sexually dichromatic species with bright blue males and green females. They have various bill types and many of them feed on nectar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dacnis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.