Red Necked Tanager

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Bird name: Red Necked Tanager
Latin: Tangara cyanocephala
Other: Saíra-militar (Br) • Tángara de cuello rojo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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The Red-necked Tanager is easy to identify in the adult form by its red neck. It also has a blue cap, green body, with some yellow on wing and black on back and on face around bill. The female, directly below, has less yellow on wing, less black on back and a duller, more orangey neck.

The juvenile Red-necked Tanager, seen above feeding from an adult male, and more examples below in “more photos”, is predominantly green with tell-tale flecks of adult colour, such as red neck and blue cap, with black face.

The Red-necked Tanager is endemic to the south-east Atlantic Rainforest corridor in Brazil, with another pocket in the north-east of the country, with a paler blue head and blue fleck on tail.

Below, female Red-necked Tanager


Below, adult male Red-necked Tanager


Below, juvenile Red-necked Tanager


Below, adult Red-necked Tanager at banana feeder.


Below, adult feeding juvenile Red-necked Tanager


Below, juvenile and adult male Red-necked Tanager


Below, juvenile Red-necked Tanager


Below, juvenile Red-necked Tanager, small fleck of blue on crown.


Below, juvenile and adult Red-necked Tanager


Below, close-up of adult male Red-necked Tanager feeding.