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| Paradise tanager | |
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| In Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park, Peru | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Tangara |
| Species: | T. chilensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tangara chilensis | |
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The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15 cm (5.3 to 6"). It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage.The vivid colours of the paradise tanager have been linked to underlying achromatic feather layers (black or white) that enhance the brilliance of structural colours.[3] Depending on subspecies, the behind is yellow and red or all red. The beak is black and the legs are grey. It is native to the Amazon rainforest.
Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, the species can be found in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Chile.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Tangara chilensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T22722820A94786489. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722820A94786489.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Vigors, 1832. Aglaïa Chilensis (protonym). Proc. Comm. Sci. Corres. Zool. Soc. London, Part 2, no. 15, p. 3. BHL
- ^ Shahid Naeem, "The Secret Brilliance of Birds", Science, 2025, summarising Price-Waldman et al., Science Advances (2025), doi:10.1126/sciadv.adw5857.
External links
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- Paradise Tanager videos on The Internet Bird Collection + The Macaulay Library
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
- Photo-Medium Res; Article borderland-tours
- Stamps (for Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname)
- Paradise Tanager photo gallery Archived 2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine VIREO
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