Red Tanager (Piranga flava)
About the Red Tanager
The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae. There four subspecies of Piranga flava: Piranga flava macconnelli C. Chubb, 1921 (southern Guyana, southern Suriname and northern Brazil) Piranga flava rosacea Todd, 1922 (eastern Bolivia) Piranga flava saira (von Spix, 1825) (eastern and southern Brazil) Piranga flava flava (Vieillot, 1822) (southeastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay) 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). 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).
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 64 recordings for this species: 15 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 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador 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.