Red-necked Tanager - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by Francisco Paludo
Casa da Rosane Taborda, Morretes, PR, Brazil, June, 2017

Tangara cyanocephala

Identification

13 cm (5 in)

• Cobalt blue crown and chin
• Black forehead
• Red hind-neck
• Turquoise line round the eyes and above the forehead
• Green underparts
• Black wings with broad green edging and a yellow-orange line on the wing-coverts

Distribution

Photo by Alexandretf
Peruibe, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2009

South America: found in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• T. c. cearensis:

• Forests of north-eastern Brazil (Ceará)

• T. c. corallina:

• Eastern Brazil (Pernambuco to Bahia)

• T. c. cyanocephala:

• South-eastern Brazil (southern Bahia) to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

Habitat

They are to be found in the canopy of light forest, forest edges and second growth

Behaviour

The diet consists of fruit, berries and also insects.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Arthur Grosset
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2016)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Red-necked Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 6 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red-necked_Tanager

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