Red-hooded Tanager (Piranga rubriceps)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Cardinalidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia

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Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia

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Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia

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Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia

Identification & Behavior: ~18 cm (7 in). The Red-hooded Tanager is yellowish and gray above and bright yellow below. It has a bright red hood, which extends to the breast in the male. The Red-hooded Tanager forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of the humid montane forest often in pairs or family groups. The combination of a red hood and yellow belly is unmistakable but see Bay-headed Tanager, which ranges at lower elevations.

Status: The Red-hooded Tanager is uncommon to rare in humid montane forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 1800-3000 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.

Name in Spanish: Piranga de Capucho Rojo.

Sub-species: Red-hooded Tanager (Piranga rubriceps), (G. R. Gray), 1844.

Meaning of Name: Piranga: Güaraní name Pirangá red (bird), for a small bird, a finch or a
tanager. rubriceps: L. ruber, rubra= red and ceps= headed, head.

See more of the Family Cardinalidae   peru aves

Distribution Map
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References:

    • Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum.  http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.