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10 unusual facts about Tanager


Black-capped Hemispingus

The Black-capped Hemispingus (Hemispingus atropileus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Black-eared Hemispingus

The Black-eared Hemispingus (Hemispingus melanotis) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Chestnut-backed Tanager

It is closely related to the rarer Black-backed Tanager, and females of the two species are indistinguishable.

Drab Hemispingus

The Drab Hemispingus (Hemispingus xanthophthalmus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Golden-naped Tanager

Golden-naped tanagers have plumage similar to those of the Metallic-green Tanager, the Swallow Tanager

Lesser seed-finch

The lesser seed-finches are two species of Thraupids in the genus Oryzoborus.

Oleaginous Hemispingus

The Oleaginous Hemispingus (Hemispingus frontalis) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Orange-browed Hemispingus

The Orange-browed Hemispingus (Hemispingus calophrys) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family that can be found in Bolivia and Peru.

Speckled Tanager

It is probably a close relative of the Spotted Tanager (T. punctata) which replaces it to the south.

Three-striped Hemispingus

The Three-striped Hemispingus (Hemispingus trifasciatus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.


Alexander Wetmore

Several taxa of birds have been named in his honor, including the Cretaceous genus Alexornis and the tanagers Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron and Buthraupis wetmorei.

Contursi Terme

No secure identification of Contursi Terme, where ancient remains confirm a settlement at the confluence of the Tanagro (ancient Tanager) with the Sele, is likely.

Gough Finch

Traditionally considered a bunting and placed in the family Emberizidae, it is actually neither a bunting nor a true finch, but belongs to a group of finch-like birds or tanager-finches in the family Thraupidae.

Schiedea verticillata

Schiedea verticillata, known as the Nihoa Carnation, is an endangered species of carnation, endemic to the island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where it was discovered in 1923 by the Tanager Expedition.

Seven-coloured Tanager

It resembles the overall greener Green-headed Tanager; a species confusingly known as the Seven-coloured Tanager (saĆ­ra-sete-cores) in Portuguese.

Syzygium cumini

In Brazil, where it was introduced from India during Portuguese colonization, it has dispersed spontaneously in the wild in some places, as its fruits are eagerly sought by various native birds such as thrushes, tanagers and the Great Kiskadee.

Tabebuia rosea

Pollination occurs probably by insects, although the flowers are visited by many birds such as tanagers, hummingbirds and orioles.

Tanager Expedition

The Tanager Expedition was a series of five biological surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands conducted in partnership between the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bishop Museum, with the assistance of the U.S. Navy.