Red-shouldered Tanager
Tachyphonus phoeniciusSwainson, WJ, 1838
English (US) Red-shouldered Tanager
The Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) 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 Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: the Guianas and southern Venezuela to northeastern Peru and Amazonian BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tachyphonus phoenicius
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-shouldered Tanager
- Described by
- Swainson, WJ, 1838
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Swainson, WJ, 1838
- Type locality
- Fernando Po, on the African coast; error, eastern Peru suggested by Berlepsch, 1908, Novit. Zool., 15, p. 116. 1
- Original description
- Animals in Menageries. In: The Cabinet Cyclopædia conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner p.311
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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