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Crimson-backed Tanager

Ramphocelus dimidiatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreShrublandCup nestSmall · 28 g
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 1
Photo: yongestation · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 2
Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 3
Photo: yongestation · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 4
Photo: Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 5
Photo: Navin Sasikumar · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 6
Photo: Navin Sasikumar · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 7
Photo: Ian Adams · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 8
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 9
Photo: Bobjgalindo · CC BY 4.0
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), photo 10
Photo: Bobjgalindo · CC BY 4.0

When to see the Crimson-backed Tanager

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Crimson-backed Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Panama Venezuela French Polynesia Costa Rica

About the Crimson-backed Tanager

The crimson-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela, and introduced to French Polynesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. A nickname in Panama is sangre de toro.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) Silver-beaked TanagerRamphocelus carboThe silver-beaked tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) Flame-rumped TanagerRamphocelus flammigerusThe flame-rumped tanager measures on average 19 cm (7.5 in) in length. Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) Scarlet-rumped TanagerRamphocelus passeriniiThe adult Scarlet-rumped tanager is 16 cm long and weighs 31 g.

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