Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 2 species of tanager, in the family Thraupidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 16 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Male and female are so different that it is hard to believe they are the same species: he is black with a scarlet rump, she brown and orange with no trace of red.
It was split from Cherrie's tanager of the Pacific slope as a species of its own in the 1990s: the two meet in a narrow strip of Costa Rica where they hybridise.
It is one of the commonest birds at the fruit feeders of Costa Rican reserves, and its confiding nature has made it one of the species visitors photograph most.
Its combination of fluorescent green, turquoise, black and red places it among the most colourful birds on the planet, and the species changes rump colour by region: red in some populations, orange or yellow in others.
From Paradise Tanager
It travels in mixed canopy flocks with dozens of different species: each one works a different substrate and all of them benefit from the collective watch against raptors.
From Paradise Tanager