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Summer tanager. Tangara Veranera. Macho / Male

Piranga rubra

Description:

The summer tanager (Piranga rubra), is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it and other members of its genus are now classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae).[2] The species's plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family.

Habitat:

Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas, especially with oaks, across the southern United States, extending as far north as Iowa. These birds migrate to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. This tanager is an extremely rare vagrant to western Europe.

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Alajuela, Costa Rica

Spotted on Nov 2, 2014
Submitted on Nov 2, 2014

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