Red tanager
The red tanager is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.
Taxonomy
There four subspecies of Piranga flava:Piranga flava macconnelli Piranga flava rosacea Piranga flava saira Piranga flava flavaThe red tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the flava subspecies group. However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica and Piranga lutea.