Hepatic Tanager

Hepatic Tanager

Taxobox
name = Hepatic Tanager


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Northern Hepatic Tanager, "Piranga flava hepatica"
status = LC
status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Cardinalidae
genus = "Piranga"
species = "P. flava"
binomial = "Piranga flava"
binomial_authority = Vieillot, 1822
synonyms = "Piranga hepatica"

The Hepatic Tanager, "Piranga flava", is a medium-sized American songbird. Traditionally placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it is now thought to be much closer to cardinals (Cardinalidae).

The habits of the Hepatic Tanager are similar to those of the Western Tanager.

Its range includes Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico.

It is larger and stockier than other tanagers and has a relatively short tail and a stout bill. Its brightest color is always on its forehead and throat. In all plumages, it has grey flanks, dusky cheeks, and a dark eye streak. The female is yellow, and the male is red. Its average weight is 1.3 oz (38 g). Its average wingspan is 12.5 in (31.8 cm) and length 8 inches (20.3 cm).

Its call is a low, dry "chup" like the Hermit Thrush. Its song is clearer than Thraupidae tanagers and far more similar to the song of the Black-headed Grosbeak, another member of the Cardinalidae. The flight call is a husky and rising "weet".

References


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

External links

* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/20109600.htm Stamps] (for Paraguay) with RangeMap
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=9158 Hepatic Tanager videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=hepatic+tanager&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Hepatic Tanager photo gallery] VIREO
* [http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/photos/pirfla4838.jpgPhoto-"Piranga flava"-High Res] ; [http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/lowlandhepatictanager.html Article & synopsis] arthurgrosset–"Birds of South America"


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