Common south of the Amazon and east
of the Andes...some think it belongs in
the finch-like tanager genus.
Embernagra platensis
(L 8.25")
Itatiaia Nat’l Park
Agulhas Negras Road
19Oct2017
Humans are capable of neuro-
genesis in a few brain regions;
birds can robustly do it
throughout the brain.
(Jim Robbins)
© Michael J
Andersen, III
Macaulay
Library
Embernagra is French for this bird;
platensis is for the Rio de La Plata,
Argentina.