Red-shouldered Tanager

Tachyphonus phoenicius

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesShrublandCup nestSmall · 21 g

When to see the Red-shouldered Tanager

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Red-shouldered Tanager

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 7 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Bolivia.

About the Red-shouldered Tanager

The red-shouldered tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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