About Tachyphonus surinamus (Linnaeus, 1766)
The fulvous-crested tanager, scientifically named Tachyphonus surinamus (Linnaeus, 1766), is a bird species that belongs to Thraupidae, the tanager family. This species occurs in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The fulvous-crested tanager occupies the entire Amazon Basin, but only the downstream third of the basin's southern half, in the southeast and southwest. Its range extends into the Guianas in the northeast, and into the Orinoco River drainage of Venezuela in the northwest. It does not reach the western or northern regions of the Orinoco drainage, which forms the northern and western limits of its range.
