Red-hooded Tanager
Piranga rubricepsGray, GR, 1844
English (US) Red-hooded Tanager
The Red-hooded Tanager (Piranga rubriceps) 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: Andes of Colombia to northeastern Peru (Huánuco)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Piranga rubriceps
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-hooded Tanager
- Described by
- Gray, GR, 1844
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- P[yranga] rubriceps
- Described by
- Gray, GR, 1844
- Type locality
- no locality ; type from Bogota, fide Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 293.
- Original description
- The genera of birds: comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of each genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera 2 p.364 pl.89 fig.
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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