Red tanager

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Red tanager
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Male
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Female
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Piranga
Species:
P. flava
Binomial name
Piranga flava
(Vieillot, 1822)
Piranga flava map 2.svg

The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.

Taxonomy

There four subspecies of Piranga flava: [2]

The red tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the flava subspecies group (lowland hepatic tanager). [3] [4] However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga lutea (the tooth-billed tanager). [2]

References

  1. BirdLife International. (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Piranga flava". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T103811599A119471621. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103811599A119471621.en . Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  2. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela C. (eds.). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and "tanager" allies". IOC World Bird List . Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  3. "Cardinalidae Cardinals and Allies". Birds of the World Online. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  4. "The Family Cardinalidae". Howard & Moore checklist. 4.1. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 28 April 2024.