Red Tanager

Piranga flava saira

Classification

Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae

The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae. Taxonomy There four subspecies of Piranga flava: Piranga flava macconnelli C. Chubb, 1921 (southern Guyana, southern Suriname and northern Brazil) Piranga flava rosacea Todd, 1922 (eastern Bolivia) Piranga flava saira (von Spix, 1825) (eastern and southern Brazil) Piranga flava flava (Vieillot, 1822) (southeastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay) The red tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the flava…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 2

Sources and credits

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Red Tanager

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