White Winged Tanager

Copyright: monacoeye • Nanegal, Ecuador • Mar 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: White Winged Tanager
Latin: Piranga leucoptera
Other: Piranga aliblanca (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers - now Cardinalidae
Range: E Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
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This White-winged Tanager was one of the first birds I saw in Ecuador, in Nanegal.

The male White-winged Tanager is a red bird with two white wingbars on a dark wing. The female is yellow, also with two wingbars.