Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) | Photos and ID

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ForestCup nestSmall · 20 g

Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), photo 1 — Photo: Alan Valentino · CC BY 4.0

Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), photo 2 — Photo: Alan Valentino · CC BY 4.0

Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), photo 3 — Photo: Thomaz de Carvalho Callado · CC BY 4.0

Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), photo 4 — Photo: Thomaz de Carvalho Callado · CC BY 4.0

Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The seven-coloured tanager is a 13.5 cm bird named for the spectacular range in colouration of its feathers. Turquoise-green: Head, chin, and mantle Black: Lores, area around bill, back, shoulders, and throat Bright blue: Breast and edge of tail Ultramarine blue: Belly Paler turquoise-blue: Wing-coverts Dark blue: Edging to wing feathers Orange: Edging to tertials, rump, and lower back

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When to see the Seven-colored Tanager

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Seven-colored Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

About the Seven-colored Tanager

The seven-colo[u]red tanager is a vulnerable species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to forests in north-eastern Brazil. It resembles the overall greener green-headed tanager; a species confusingly known as the 'seven-coloured tanager' (saíra-sete-cores) in Portuguese.

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Easily confused with

Rufous-cheeked TanagerTangara rufigenisThe rufous-cheeked tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers.

Green-naped TanagerTangara fucosaThe green-naped tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

White-bellied TanagerTangara brasiliensisAdult birds are 14 cm (5.5 in) long.

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