Paradise tanager

Paradise tanager
In Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park, Peru
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species:
T. chilensis
Binomial name
Tangara chilensis
(Vigors, 1832) [2]
Synonyms
  • Aglaïa Chilensis (protonym)

The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15 cm (5.3 to 6"). It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage. Depending on subspecies, the behind is yellow and red or all red. The beak is black and the legs are grey. It is native to the Amazon rainforest.

Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, the species can be found in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Chile.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Tangara chilensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22722820A94786489. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722820A94786489.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Vigors, 1832. Aglaïa Chilensis (protonym). Proc. Comm. Sci. Corres. Zool. Soc. London, Part 2, no. 15, p. 3. BHL
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