Paradise Tanager

Paradise Tanager

Taxobox
name = Paradise Tanager
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 225px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Thraupidae
genus = "Tangara"
species = "T. chilensis"
binomial = "Tangara chilensis"
binomial_authority = Vigors, 1832The Paradise Tanager, "Tangara chilensis" is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15cm. It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage. The beak and legs are black.

Found in South America, they are fairly widespread and can be seen in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and the upper parts of the Amazon. Paradise Tanager is also found in the lower Amazon Basin, in the northeast, adjacent to the Guyanas, and absent from the central and southeast basin.

The Paradise Tanager is common throughout its range. It is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=9253 Paradise Tanager videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=9386&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=53886 IUCN Red List]
* [http://borderland-tours.com/v2/images/stories/borderland/gallery_photos/ecuador/paradise%20tanager.jpgPhoto-Medium Res] ; [http://borderland-tours.com/v2/content/view/47/69/ Article] borderland-tours
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/20119100.htm Stamps] (for Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname)
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=paradise+tanager&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Paradise Tanager photo gallery] VIREO


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