Piranga

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Genus of birds

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::summary Genus of birds ::

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| image = Piranga olivacea1.jpg | image_caption = Scarlet tanager | taxon = Piranga | authority = Vieillot, 1808 | type_species = Muscicapa rubra = Fringilla rubra | type_species_authority= Linnaeus, 1766 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See species list

Piranga is a genus of birds long placed in the tanager family, but now considered members of the family Cardinalidae. The genus name Piranga is from Tupi word tijepiranga, the name for an unknown small bird.

Similar in shape and habits to the true tanagers, their coloration betrays their actual relationships. They are essentially red, orange, or yellow all over, except the tail and wings, and in some species also the back. Such extensive lipochrome coloration (except on the belly) is very rare in true tanagers, but is widespread among the Cardinalidae.

These songbirds are found high in tree canopies, and are not very gregarious in their breeding areas. Piranga species pick insects from leaves, or sometimes in flight. They also take some fruit. Several species are migratory, breeding in North America and wintering in the tropics.

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Piranga was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1808 with the summer tanager (Piranga rubra) as the type species. The genus name Piranga is from the Tupi Tijepiranga, the name for an unknown small bird.

|name=Flame-colored tanager |binomial=Piranga bidentata |image=File:Flame-colored Tanager 2.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Flame-colored Tanager. Female. Piranga bidentata - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Swainson |authority-year=1827 |authority-not-original= |range=Mexico, and throughout Central America to northern Panama |range-image=File:Piranga bidentata map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on |P. b. bidentata |P. b. flammea |P. b. sanguinolenta |P. b. citrea

|name= Red-headed tanager|binomial=Piranga erythrocephala |image=File:Red-headed Tanager (Piranga erythrocephala) (8079395236).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |authority-name=Swainson|authority-year= 1827 |authority-not-original=yes |range= Mexico |range-image=File:Piranga erythrocephala map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies=

|name=Hepatic tanager |binomial=Piranga hepatica |image=File:Piranga hepatica.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Hepatic Tanager (Piranga hepatica) female (5572504392).jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Swainson |authority-year=1827 |authority-not-original= |range= Southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, and locally in southern California and Colorado), Mexico & Central America |range-image=File:Piranga hepatica map 2.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Five subspecies |bullets=on | P. h. hepatica Swainson, 1827 | P. h. dextra Bangs, 1907 | P. h. figlina Salvin & Godman, 1883 | P. h. savannarum T.R. Howell, 1965 | P. h. albifacies J.T. Zimmer, 1929

|name=Tooth-billed tanager |binomial=Piranga lutea |image=File:Piranga lutea, male, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Piranga lutea (female), Colombia (30550958531).jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Lesson |authority-year=1834 |authority-not-original=yes |range=northwestern South America |range-image=File:Piranga lutea map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on | P. l. testacea P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1868 | P. l. faceta Bangs, 1898 | P. l. haemalea Salvin & Godman, 1883 | P. l. toddi Parkes, 1969 | P. l. desidiosa Bangs & Noble, 1918 | P. l. lutea (Lesson, 1834)

|name=Red tanager |binomial=Piranga flava |image=File:Piranga flava male.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Piranga flava -Campos do Jordao, Sao Paulo, Brazil-8.jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year=1822 |authority-not-original=yes |range= eastern South America |range-image=File:Piranga flava map 2.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on | P. f. macconnelli C. Chubb, 1921 | P. f. rosacea Todd, 1922 | P. f. saira (von Spix, 1825) | P. f. flava (Vieillot, 1822)

|name=White-winged tanager |binomial=Piranga leucoptera |image=File:Piranga leucoptera - Waraira Repano National Park, Venezuela -male-8 (cropped).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Piranga leucoptera (female) -NW Ecuador-6 (cropped).jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Trudeau|authority-year= 1839 |authority-not-original= |range= Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela |range-image=File:Piranga leucoptera map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on |P. l. leucoptera |P. l. latifasciata |P. l. venezuelae |P. l. ardens

|name=Western tanager |binomial=Piranga ludoviciana |image=File:Western Tanager piranga ludoviciana; body visible, male.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Western Tanager (53171713023).jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Wilson |authority-year=1811 |authority-not-original=yes |range= Southeastern Alaska south to northern Baja California, Mexico. Western tanagers extend east to western Texas and north through central New Mexico, central Colorado, extreme northwest Nebraska, and areas of western South Dakota to southern Northwest Territories, Canada |range-image=File:Piranga ludoviciana map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies=

|name=Scarlet tanager |binomial=Piranga olivacea |image=File:Scarlet Tanager (7467759484).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Piranga olivacea Piranga alinegra Scarlet Tanager (15359865237).jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Gmelin |authority-year=1789 |authority-not-original=yes |range= Eastern United States. Migrate to Central and northern South America |range-image=File:Piranga olivacea map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies=

|name= Rose-throated tanager|binomial=Piranga roseogularis |image=File:Piranga roseogularis 64951842.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |authority-name=Cabot |authority-year=1846 |authority-not-original= |range= Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico |range-image=File:Piranga roseogularis map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on |P. r. roseogularis |P. r. tincta |P. r. cozumelae

|name= Summer tanager|binomial=Piranga rubra |image=File:Summer Tanager - Texas - USA H8O9934 (23250423155).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male |image2 =File:Summer Tanager Female Mexico (cropped).jpg|image2-caption=Female |authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes |range=Southern United States, extending as far north as Iowa. These birds migrate to Mexico, Central America and northern South America |range-image=File:Piranga rubra map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on |P. r. cooperi Ridgway, 1869 | P. r. rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)

|name=Red-hooded tanager |binomial=Piranga rubriceps |image=File:Piranga rubriceps Red-hooded Tanager; Abra Patricia, Peru.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Gray|authority-year=1844 |authority-not-original= |range= Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |range-image=File:Piranga rubriceps map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies=

References

References

  1. . ["Cardinalidae"](https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=204). *The Trust for Avian Systematics*.
  2. Vieillot, Louis Pierre. (1807). ["Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale : contenant un grand nombre d'espèces décrites ou figurées pour la première fois"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47004084 }} For a discussion of the publication date see: {{ cite book). Chez Desray.
  3. (1970). "Check-List of Birds of the World". Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  4. Jobling, James A.. (2010). "The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names". Christopher Helm.

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