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 LC    Red-hooded Tanager* Id (Atlas):
    Piranga rubriceps

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Red-hooded Tanager, Gray's Tanager

Family
Cardinalidae (Cardinals)

Size
17 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gray, 1844

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest. From 1,700 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Locally in all three ranges of Andes in Colombia, and on eastern slope (from Nariño and Putumayo) south through Ecuador (locally also on western slope south to Pichincha) to northern Peru (south to Huánuco).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

 
Red-hooded Tanager (Piranga rubriceps) [XC787205]
     by Nick Athanas from Above Leymebamba, Peru (call)

 
Red-hooded Tanager (Piranga rubriceps) [XC259715]
     by Mitch Lysinger from Zamora-Chinchipe: Tapichalaca reserve, Quebrada Honda, Ecuador (duet)

Subspecies
No 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.


References
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Files:
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