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The Summer tanager (Piranga rubra) belongs to the family Cardinalidae under the order Passeriformes.

Summer tanager taxonomy

The Cardinalidae is the family of cardinals and tanagers. The family Cardinalidae was first described by Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929), an American ornithologist, in the year 1901.

The family Cardinalidae comprises about fourteen genera, including Piranga. The genus Piranga was first introduced by Louis Pierre Vieillot (May 10, 1748 – August 24, 1830), a French ornithologist, in the year 1808.

The genus Piranga comprises nine species, viz., Piranga rubriceps, Piranga erythrocephala, Piranga leucoptera, Piranga bidentata, Piranga ludoviciana, Piranga olivacea, Piranga flava, Piranga roseogularis and Piranga rubra.

The species Piranga rubra was first introduced (as Fringilla rubra) by Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, in the year 1758.

The species Piranga rubra comprises two subspecies, viz., Piranga rubra rubra and Piranga rubra cooperi. The Piranga species were earlier grouped under the family Thraupidae.

Taxonomic classification
Binomial name:	Piranga rubra
Species:	P. rubra
Genus:	Piranga
Subfamily:	-
Family:	Cardinalidae
Order:	Passeriformes
Class:	Aves
Phylum:	Chordata
Kingdom:	Animalia

1.Summer tanager - Piranga rubra
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6.Summer tanager - Piranga rubra
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7.Summer tanager - Piranga rubra
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8.Piranga rubra
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9.Piranga rubra
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1.Summer tanager image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piranga_rubra_(Cardenal_abejero)_-_Flickr_-_Alejandro_Bayer.jpg (cropped)
Author: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 12/1/18
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The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) was formerly placed in the tanager family and is now classified with cardinals, the Cardinalidae.

The summer tanager is distributed in Canada, USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, northern South America and Caribbean Islands. These tanager species are fully migratory. These tanagers are polytypic species.

Overview & Quick Facts	Description & Identification
Pictures of Summer Tanager	Distribution & Range
Ecosystem & Habitat	Diet & Feeding Behavior
Breeding Habits	Migration & Movement Patterns
Conservation & Survival	IUCN Status
Taxonomy & Classification	Bird World

Appearance, physical description and identification

The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized bird, measuring 16 to 18 cm in length and weighing 24 to 38 grams.

The male summer tanager has bright rosy red plumage. The female has yellowish olive upperparts and slightly paler underparts. The wings have blackish brown streaks.

The bill is stout, pointed and pale cream in color. The short legs and feet are grayish brown. The irises are blackish. There is a pale yellowish eye-ring. Their call is a sharp, loud "pik-i-tuk" sound.

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The summer tanager warbler is distributed in extreme south Canada, USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, northern South America and Caribbean Islands.

In South America these tanager species are distributed in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana.

The summer tanager nominate subspecies P. r. rubra breeds in eastern USA and winters in southern Mexico, central American countries, parts of northern South America and Caribbean Islands.

The subspecies P. r. cooperi is distributed in southwest USA and northern Mexico. This subspecies winters in central and south Mexico.

These summer tanager species have moderate forest dependence. They normally occurs in altitudes between 0 to 1800 meters.

The artificial ecosystems and habitats of these species include plantations, rural gardens, urban areas and human-altered habitats.

The natural ecosystems and habitats of these tanager species include tropical and subtropical dry forests, subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests, open hardwood forests, boreal forests and temperate forests.

The diet of these summer tanager species consists mainly of arthropods. Insects, insect larvae, caterpillars, beetles, bees, wasps and wasp larvae are their primary food.

These tanagers also feed on fruits, berries and custard apples. They forage on the upper canopy and sometimes hawk insects. They also glean insects from tree branches and foliage.

The breeding season of these summer tanager species is from May to August in most of their breeding range. They are monogamous and solitary nesters. The female builds the nest on lateral branches of trees.

The nest is a shallow cup, built with dry bark stripes and plant fibers. It is lined with fine grass and fine rootlets. The clutch contains four to six eggs.

The chicks hatch out after 10-14 days of incubation. The hatchlings are altricial, depending completely on parents for brooding, feeding and protection. They fledge after 15 days.

These summer tanager species are fully migratory birds. The breeding populations occur in northeast USA and southeast Canada. Populations under migration are found in southern USA.

These tanagers leave breeding grounds during August-September to winter in central America, northern South America and Caribbean islands. The return migration to the breeding grounds takes place in early summer.

• Scientific name: Piranga rubra
• Species author: (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Synonyms/Protonym: Fringilla rubra Linnaeus, 1758
• Family: Cardinalidae › Passeriformes › Aves › Chordata › Animalia
• Vernacular names: English: Summer tanager, Chinese: 玫红丽唐纳雀, French: Piranga vermillon, German: Sommerkardinal, Spanish: Piranga roja, Russian: Алая пиранга, Japanese: ナツフウキンチョウ
• Other names: Summer Tanager, Cooper's Tanager, Redbird
• Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, northern South America, Caribbean Islands
• Diet and feeding habits: insects, invertebrates, fruits
• IUCN status listing: Least Concern (LC)

The global population size of the summer tanager (Piranga rubra) has not been quantified. The overall population trend of the species is reported to be stable.

In most of its range, this tanager species is reported to be fairly common to common. The generation length is 3.8 years. Its distribution size is about 5,680,000 sq.km.

Ecosystem degradation, ecosystem conversion and trapping of adults and juveniles for pet-trade are the main threats that may endanger the survival of the tanager species.

IUCN and CITES status

The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) species does not approach the thresholds for being Vulnerable either under the range size criterion, or under the population trend criterion or under the population size criterion.

The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) has categorized and evaluated the species and has listed it as of "Least Concern".

The CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) status is ‘Not Evaluated’ for the summer tanager (Piranga rubra).

Taxonomy and scientific classification of Piranga rubra
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Subfamily:	-
Genus:	Piranga
Species:	P. rubra
Binomial name:	Piranga rubra
IUCN status listing:	Least Concern

The two recognized subspecies of the summer tanager (Piranga rubra) are:
P. r. rubra (Linnaeus, 1758) and
P. r. cooperi Ridgway, 1869.

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