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Rufous-winged Tanager (Tangara lavinia)

Rufous-winged Tanager
Photo: John Gerrard Keulemans via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain — free for commercial reuse.

About the Rufous-winged Tanager

The rufous-winged tanager (Tangara lavinia) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. The rufous-winged tanager was first described as Castille lavinia by John Cassin in 1858, on the basis of a specimen collected by W.S. Wood, Jr. at the Isthmus of Panama. The generic name Tangara is from the Tupí word tangara, meaning dancer. The specific name lavinia is after the artist Lavinia Bowen. Rufous-winged tanager is the official common name designated by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC). Other names for the species include rufous winged tanager and Lavinia's tanager.

Source: Rufous-winged tanager on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Rufous-winged Tanager. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:17) via xeno-canto.org/251592, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Call (0:20) via xeno-canto.org/243151, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama · xeno-canto lists 20 recordings for this species in total.

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