Red tanager

The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.

Red tanager
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Piranga
Species:	P. flava
Binomial name
Piranga flava (Vieillot, 1822)

Taxonomy

There four subspecies of Piranga flava:^[2]

• Piranga flava macconnelli C. Chubb, 1921 (southern Guyana, southern Suriname and northern Brazil)
• Piranga flava rosacea Todd, 1922 (eastern Bolivia)
• Piranga flava saira (von Spix, 1825) (eastern and southern Brazil)
• Piranga flava flava (Vieillot, 1822) (southeastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay)

The red tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the flava subspecies group (lowland hepatic tanager).^[3][4] However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga lutea (the tooth-billed tanager).^[2]