About the Scarlet-rumped Tanager
The scarlet-rumped tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder in the Caribbean lowlands from southern Mexico to western Panama. This species was formerly known as the scarlet-rumped tanager, but was renamed to Passerini's Tanager after Carlo Passerini, a professor at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Florence, when the distinctive form found on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama was reclassified as a separate species, the Cherrie's tanager, Ramphocelus costaricensis. While most authorities had accepted this split, there were notable exceptions. It was renamed back to the scarlet-rumped tanager in 2018 when Cherrie's Tanager was lumped back…
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The adult Scarlet-rumped tanager is 16 cm long and weighs 31 g. The adult male is mainly black except for a scarlet rump, silvery bill and dark red iris. The female has a grey head, olive upperparts becoming brighter and paler on the rump, brownish wings and tail and ochre underparts. The female's plumage is the one that differs most from Cherrie's tanager. Immatures have an orange tint to the underparts and rump, and look like a paler and duller female Cherrie's tanager. The Passerini's tanager's call is a sharp wac.
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What the Scarlet-rumped Tanager sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in March · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Silver-beaked TanagerRamphocelus carboThe silver-beaked tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird.
Crimson-backed TanagerRamphocelus dimidiatusThe crimson-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
Flame-rumped TanagerRamphocelus flammigerusThe flame-rumped tanager measures on average 19 cm (7.5 in) in length.
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