Tanagers
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Thraupidae
The tanagers are a large group of small to medium-sized passerine birds restricted to the New World, mainly in the tropics. Many species are brightly coloured. They are seed eaters, but their preference tends towards fruit and nectar. Most have short, rounded wings.
- Chestnut-vented Conebill Conirostrum speciosum
- White-eared Conebill Conirostrum leucogenys
- Bicolored Conebill Conirostrum bicolor
- Rufous-browed Conebill Conirostrum rufum
- Blue-backed Conebill Conirostrum sitticolor
- Capped Conebill Conirostrum albifrons
- Black-faced Tanager Schistochlamys melanopis
- Magpie Tanager Cissopis leveriana
- White-capped Tanager Sericossypha albocristata
- Gray-hooded Bush-Tanager Cnemoscopus rubrirostris
- Black-capped Hemispingus Hemispingus atropileus
- Superciliaried Hemispingus Hemispingus superciliaris
- Gray-capped Hemispingus Hemispingus reyi (E)
- Oleaginous Hemispingus Hemispingus frontalis
- Black-eared Hemispingus Hemispingus melanotis
- Slaty-backed Hemispingus Hemispingus goeringi (E)
- Black-headed Hemispingus Hemispingus verticalis
- Fulvous-headed Tanager Thlypopsis fulviceps
- Orange-headed Tanager Thlypopsis sordida
- Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira
- Yellow-backed Tanager Hemithraupis flavicollis
- Hooded Tanager Nemosia pileata
- Rosy Thrush-Tanager Rhodinocichla rosea
- Olive-backed Tanager Mitrospingus oleagineus
- Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata
- Fulvous Shrike-Tanager Lanio fulvus
- Rufous-crested Tanager Creurgops verticalis
- Flame-crested Tanager Tachyphonus cristatus
- Fulvous-crested Tanager Tachyphonus surinamus
- White-shouldered Tanager Tachyphonus luctuosus
- White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus
- Red-shouldered Tanager Tachyphonus phoenicius
- Crimson-backed Tanager Ramphocelus dimidiatus
- Silver-beaked Tanager Ramphocelus carbo
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Glaucous Tanager Thraupis glaucocolpa
- Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca
- Blue-capped Tanager Thraupis cyanocephala
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Blue-backed Tanager Cyanicterus cyanicterus
- Hooded Mountain-Tanager Buthraupis montana
- Black-chested Mountain-Tanager Buthraupis eximia
- Lacrimose Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus lacrymosus
- Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus igniventris
- Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus somptuosus
- Golden-crowned Tanager Iridosornis rufivertex
- Buff-breasted Mountain-Tanager Dubusia taeniata
- Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota
- Orange-eared Tanager Chlorochrysa calliparaea
- Turquoise Tanager Tangara mexicana
- Paradise Tanager Tangara chilensis
- Green-and-gold Tanager Tangara schrankii
- Golden Tanager Tangara arthus
- Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala
- Flame-faced Tanager Tangara parzudakii
- Yellow-bellied Tanager Tangara xanthogastra
- Spotted Tanager Tangara punctata
- Speckled Tanager Tangara guttata
- Dotted Tanager Tangara varia
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Burnished-buff Tanager Tangara cayana
- Rufous-cheeked Tanager Tangara rufigenis (E)
- Blue-necked Tanager Tangara cyanicollis
- Masked Tanager Tangara nigrocincta
- Beryl-spangled Tanager Tangara nigroviridis
- Blue-and-black Tanager Tangara vassorii
- Black-capped Tanager Tangara heinei
- Black-headed Tanager Tangara cyanoptera
- Opal-rumped Tanager Tangara velia
- White-bellied Dacnis Dacnis albiventris
- Black-faced Dacnis Dacnis lineata
- Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza
- Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus
- Purple Honeycreeper Cyanerpes caeruleus
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Swallow-Tanager Tersina viridis
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Plush-capped Finch Catamblyrhynchus diadema
- Red-capped Cardinal, Paroaria gularis
- Masked Cardinal, Paroaria nigrogenis
- Pileated Finch Coryphospingus pileatus
- Plumbeous Sierra-finch Phrygilus unicolor
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Slate-coloured Seedeater Sporophila schistacea
- Plumbeous Seedeater Sporophila plumbea
- Grey Seedeater Sporophila intermedia
- Wing-barred Seedeater Sporophila americana
- Lesson's Seedeater Sporophila bouvronides
- Lined Seedeater Sporophila lineola
- Black-and-white Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta
- Chestnut-bellied Seedeater Sporophila castaneiventris
- Large-billed Seed-finch Oryzoborus crassirostris
- Great-billed Seed-finch Oryzoborus maximiliani
- Lesser Seed-finch Oryzoborus angolensis
- White-naped Seedeater Dolospingus fringilloides
- Plain-colored Seedeater Catamenia inornata
- Paramo Seedeater Catamenia homochroa
- Dull-colored Grassquit Tiaris obscura
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivacea
- Black-faced Grassquit Tiaris bicolor
- Sooty Grassquit Tiaris fuliginosa
- Slaty Finch Haplospiza rustica
- Rusty Flower-piercer Diglossa sittoides
- Venezuelan Flower-piercer Diglossa venezuelensis (E)
- White-sided Flower-piercer Diglossa albilatera
- Glossy Flower-piercer Diglossa lafresnayii
- Merida Flower-piercer Diglossa gloriosa (E)
- Black Flower-piercer Diglossa humeralis
- Scaled Flower-piercer Diglossa duidae
- Greater Flower-piercer Diglossa major
- Bluish Flower-piercer Diglossopis caerulescens
- Masked Flower-piercer Diglossopis cyanea
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
- Grassland Yellow-finch Sicalis luteola
- Stripe-tailed Yellow-finch Sicalis citrina
- Orange-fronted Yellow-finch Sicalis columbiana
- Wedge-tailed Grass-finch Emberizoides herbicola
- Duida Grass-finch Emberizoides duidae (E)
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