• Source: Paradise tanager

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. 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.




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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[usurped] (for Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname)
Paradise Tanager photo gallery VIREO

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• Paradise tanager
• Tanager
• List of birds by common name
• Tangara (bird)
• Fauna of Colombia
• List of birds of Brazil
• List of least concern birds
• List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
• List of birds of Peru
• Andes to Amazon