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Scarlet-rumped Tanager

Ramphocelus passerinii

Range & Recent Observations

Scarlet-rumped Tanageris a year-round resident and doesn't follow a migration flyway. See the Range tab for where it lives.

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About the Scarlet-rumped Tanager

The scarlet-rumped tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder in the Caribbean lowlands from southern Mexico to western Panama. This species was formerly known as the scarlet-rumped tanager, but was renamed to Passerini's Tanager after Carlo Passerini, a professor at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Florence, when the distinctive form found on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama was reclassified as a separate species, the Cherrie's tanager, Ramphocelus costaricensis. While most authorities had accepted this split, there were notable exceptions (e.g. the Howard and Moore checklist). It was renamed back to the scarlet-rumped tanager in 2018 when Cherrie's Tanager was lumped back into the species.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name
Ramphocelus passerinii
Family
Tanagers and Allies
Order
Passeriformes

Similar species

Other members of the tanagers and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.

  • Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi
  • Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
  • Black-faced Grassquit Melanospiza bicolor
  • Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
  • Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius
  • Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
  • Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
  • Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
  • Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
  • Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
  • Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa baritula
  • Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis

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