Red tanager | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cardinalidae |
Genus: | Piranga |
Species: | P. flava |
Binomial name | |
Piranga flava (Vieillot, 1822) | |
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The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.
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]