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Red-crowned Ant Tanager

Habia rubica

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestSmall · 32 g
Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica), photo 1
Photo: Daniel S. Katz · CC BY 4.0
Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica), photo 2
Photo: Daniel S. Katz · CC BY 4.0
Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica), photo 3
Photo: Nicolas Huet / Jean Gabriel Prêtre · Public domain
Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica), photo 4
Photo: Arthur Chapman · CC BY 2.0
Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica), photo 5
Photo: Melissa McMasters from Memphis, TN, United States · CC BY 2.0
Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica), photo 6
Photo: Daniel S. Katz · CC BY 4.0

What the Red-crowned Ant Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Red-crowned Ant Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by David Mora Vargas · Call · Santa Maria Ranger Station, Rincon de la Vieja National Park, Liberia, Provincia de Guanacaste, Costa Rica · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Red-crowned Ant Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by David Mora Vargas · Song · Santa Maria Ranger Station, Rincon de la Vieja National Park, Liberia, Provincia de Guanacaste, Costa Rica · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Red-crowned Ant Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Orellana: 'Maxus' road km 37 (27 km SSE Pompeya), Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The red-crowned ant tanagers is 17–19 cm (6.7–7.5 in) long and weighs 28–43 g (0.99–1.52 oz) (male) or 23–37 g (0.81–1.31 oz) (female). The adult male of the nominate subspecies is dull reddish brown with a brighter red throat and breast. The black-bordered scarlet crown stripe is raised when the bird is excited. The female is yellowish brown with a yellow throat and yellow-buff crown stripe. It is a shy but noisy bird. Its call is a rattle followed by a musical pee-pee-pee.

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When to see the Red-crowned Ant Tanager

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

Where to see the Red-crowned Ant Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 17 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Costa Rica Belize Mexico Panama Argentina Peru Guatemala Nicaragua Trinidad & Tobago Honduras Bolivia Paraguay Ecuador Colombia Venezuela El Salvador

About the Red-crowned Ant Tanager

The red-crowned ant tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird from tropical America. It is the only species now placed in the genus Habia. This species was long placed with the tanagers (Thraupidae), but it is actually closer to the cardinals (Cardinalidae).

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

Easily confused with

Blue-black Grosbeak (Cyanoloxia cyanoides) Blue-black GrosbeakCyanoloxia cyanoidesThe blue-black grosbeak is sexually dimorphic. Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) Flame-colored TanagerPiranga bidentataThe flame-colored tanager is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long. Varied Bunting (Passerina versicolor) Varied BuntingPasserina versicolorThe varied bunting is a species of songbird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae.

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