Hepatic Tanager (Piranga hepatica)
About the Hepatic Tanager
The hepatic tanager (Piranga hepatica) is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it and other members of the genus Piranga are now classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The common name hepatic means "liver-coloured", namely, brownish-red. The IOC World Bird List recognises five subspecies of Piranga hepatica, found in North and Central America. Piranga hepatica hepatica Swainson, 1827 (California, Arizona, and New Mexico in the United States and Oaxaca in western Mexico) Piranga hepatica dextra Bangs, 1907 (New Mexico and western Texas in the United States, Chiapas in eastern Mexico (to Chiapas), and western Guatemala) Piranga hepatica figlina Salvin & Godman, 1883 (eastern Guatemala and Belize
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 112 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-SA. 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 Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, United States 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.