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 LC    Summer Tanager* Id (Atlas):
    Piranga rubra

Description (10)
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Family
Cardinalidae (Cardinals)

Size
16.50 - 18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, temperate forest. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)
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.

Population
Estimated population is 4,100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (96)...)

 
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) [XC493953]
     by Phoenix Birder from Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States (dawn song)

 
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) [XC655178]
     by Richard E. Webster from Four Oaks, Johnston County, North Carolina, United States (dawn song)

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.



References
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Files:
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