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NENot EvaluatedInvertebrates
ForestCup nestSmall · 38 g
ForestCup nestSmall · 38 g
When to see the Hepatic 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 Hepatic Tanager
Regular rangeRare visitor
The map shades 22 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
United States
Mexico
Colombia
Argentina
Costa Rica
Belize
Panama
Peru
Honduras
Brazil
Venezuela
Uruguay
Ecuador
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Guatemala
El Salvador
Paraguay
Trinidad & Tobago
Guyana
Suriname
French Guiana
Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada.
About the Hepatic Tanager
The red tanager is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Easily confused with
Flame-colored TanagerPiranga bidentataThe flame-colored tanager is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long.
White-winged TanagerPiranga leucopteraThe white-winged tanager is approximately 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weighs 13 to 20 g (0.46 to 0.71 oz).
Rose-throated TanagerPiranga roseogularisThe rose-throated tanager is 16 cm (6.3 in) long and weighs 21 to 30 g (0.74 to 1.06 oz).
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