Red-necked tanager
The red-necked tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
It is found in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist [lowland forest] and heavily degraded former forest.
Taxonomy and systematics
The red-necked tanager was first described by Philipp Müller in 1776 as Tanagra cyanocephala.There are three recognised subspecies of the red-necked tanager:
- T. c. cearensis – differs from T. c. corallina "in having the crown darker and more purplish blue, the shorter upper tail coverts conspicuously tipped with bright light blue, pale blue separating the black of the forehead from the dark blue of the crown only slightly indicated, and size somewhat larger."
- T. c. corallina
- ''T. c. cyanocephala''
Description