clonejoe | April 6, 2022 | Articles
A very handsome bird with a green with a blue crown and throat along with red cheeks and red nape.
MEET THE RED-NECKED TANAGER
“Saíra militar – Tangara cyanocephala” by luizmrocha is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Red-necked Tanager (Tangara cyanocephala) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. The male is easy to identify in the adult form by his red neck. He also has a blue cap, a green body, with some yellow on his wing and black on his back, face, and also around his bill.
“File:Tangara cyanocephala – Red-necked Tanager (male); Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg” by Hector Bottai is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The female tends to have less yellow on the wing, less black on the back, and more orange, rather than red on the neck.
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Juveniles tend to be green-flecked with orange on the cheeks and blue on the cap.
Photo Courtesy of Dario Sanches / CC BY-SA 2.0
These birds are found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Red-necked tanagers’ natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forests.
An omnivorous bird, the Red-necked tanager eats both fruit and insects.
During the breeding season, the nest tends to be made out of grass and placed around 1.8 m above ground level. The eggs, which are cream-colored with brown spots, are incubated for 12-13 days by the female.