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The red-billed pied tanager is 17 to 18 cm (6.7 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 24 to 42 g (0.85 to 1.48 oz). The male's head and upper parts are glossy blue-black, its throat and chest black, and the rest of the underparts white. The female is similar but the nape, back, and rump are gray. Both have the eponymous red bill. The juvenile is quite different; it has a black bill and head. Its upper back is white and the lower back mottled black and white. The underparts are white with some black mixed in. Voice: The red-billed pied tanager's song is complex, "a semi-musical but jumbled series". Flocks give a call rendered as "ééé-ééh...ééé-ééé-ééh...ééé-ééh-yuu...".
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When to see the Red-billed Pied Tanager
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Red-billed Pied Tanager
The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Red-billed Pied Tanager
The red-billed pied tanager is a species of bird in the family Mitrospingidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Suriname. Placed in family Thraupidae, the "true" tanagers, for over two centuries, the International Ornithological Committee reclassified this species to Mitrospingidae in 2018.
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Easily confused with
Olive-backed TanagerMitrospingus oleagineusThe olive-backed tanager is 19 cm (7.5 in) long and weighs 35.5 to 46 g (1.25 to 1.62 oz).
Olive-green TanagerOrthogonys chloricterusThe olive-green tanager is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long.
Dusky-faced TanagerMitrospingus cassiniiThe two subspecies are "very poorly differentiated." The adults are 18 to 18.5 cm (7.1 to 7.3 in) long and weigh 32 to 39 g (1.1 to 1.4 oz).
Side by side: Olive-green Tanager vs Red-billed Pied Tanager · Dusky-faced Tanager vs Red-billed Pied Tanager
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