Paradise tanager
The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15 cm. It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage. Depending on subspecies, the rump is yellow and red or all red. The beak is black and the legs are grey.
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| At Denver Zoo, USA | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Tangara |
| Species: | T. chilensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tangara chilensis Vigors, 1832 | |
Another color variation
Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, it occurs in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and the Guianas. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Chile.
The paradise tanager is common throughout its range. It is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Tangara chilensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tangara chilensis. |
- Paradise Tanager videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
- Photo-Medium Res; Article borderland-tours
- Stamps (for Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname)
- Paradise Tanager photo gallery VIREO
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