Paradise Tanager

About the Paradise Tanager

The paradise tanager is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15 cm. It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage.The vivid colours of the paradise tanager have been linked to underlying achromatic feather layers that enhance the brilliance of structural colours. 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.

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What the Paradise Tanager sounds like

Where the Paradise Tanager lives

When to see the Paradise Tanager

Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range

Easily confused with

Green-headed TanagerTangara seledonThe green-headed tanager is a brightly colored bird found in the Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, and far north-eastern Argentina. Blue-and-black TanagerTangara vassoriiThe blue-and-black tanager is an average-sized species for its genus, with a mean length of 13 cm (5.1 in) and mass of 18 g (0.63 oz). Saffron-crowned TanagerTangara xanthocephalaThe saffron-crowned tanager is an average-sized species of tanager, with a length of 12.5–13.5 cm (4.9–5.3 in) and a mass of 15–23.6 g (0.53–0.83 oz).