Red-headed Tanager (Piranga erythrocephala)
About the Red-headed Tanager
The red-headed tanager (Piranga erythrocephala) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks, endemic to Mexico. Comprising two subspecies, it is around 15 cm (5.9 in) long. Males have predominantly yellow-olive plumage with a red head and throat and females have yellow forecrowns. English naturalist William Swainson described the red-headed tanager in 1827 as Spermagra erythrocephala from material collected by William Bullock and his son from a specimen from Temascaltepec in Mexico.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 30 recordings for this species: 23 CC BY-NC-SA · 7 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Red-hooded TanagerPiranga rubricepsrecording
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacearecording
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubrarecording
- Tooth-billed TanagerPiranga lutearecording
- Western TanagerPiranga ludovicianarecording
- White-winged TanagerPiranga leucopterarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.