Paradise tanager

Paradise tanager
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

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.

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tangara chilensis.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, November 20, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.