Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela.
Vagrant to Jamaica, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), United Kingdom.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 4,100,000 (2010).
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) [XC684361]
by Isain Contreras Rodr\u00edguez from Tuscola, Taylor County, Texas, United States (begging call)
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) [XC375024]
by Alfonso Auerbach from Eastside Bosque, So Valley,, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States (call)
Subspecies
Molecular-genetic evidence indicates that this genus forms a monophyletic group with Habia and Chlorothraupis, and that all three are more closely related to cardinals (Cardinalidae) than to true tanagers.
Proposed subspecies ochracea (described from Trout Creek, near Cane Springs, in western Arizona) is considered synonymous with cooperi.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
cooperi Ridgway, 1869 - Breeds south-western USA (from south-eastern California, southern Nevada and central Arizona east to western Texas) and northern Mexico (south to to north-eastern Baja California, Sonora, northern Durango, south-western Coahuila and central Nuevo León). Winters central and southern Mexico (from southern Sinaloa south to Michoacán, Morelos and Guerrero).
rubra (Linnaeus, 1758) - Breeds eastern USA (from south-eastern Nebraska, southern Iowa, Ohio and Delaware south to central Texas, Gulf Coast and Florida). Winters from southern Mexico (Michoacán, Pueblo, Veracruz and Yucatán) south to northern South America (southern occasionally to northern Bolivia, western Brazil and south-eastern Venezuela, occasionally the Guianas.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet