Scarlet Tanager
Piranga olivacea(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
English (US) Scarlet Tanager
The Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cardinalidae (Cardinals and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds eastern Canada and USA; winters mainly upper Amazon basinRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Piranga olivacea
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Scarlet Tanager
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tanagra olivacea
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
- Type locality
- Cayenna et Noveboraco [= New York, fide Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 287].
- Original description
- Systema Naturae. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin (etc.). Tomus I. Pars II 1 pt2 p.889
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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