Brazilian Tanager
Tanagers and Allies comprise the second-largest family of birds and represent about 4% of all avian species and 12% of the Neotropical birds. The family has an American distribution. I have separated the various species according to the genera where they belong.
The family is Thraupidae
There are 377 species placed in 104 genera.
So far I have photographed 102 different species. Of several species, I photographed male as well as female. If so I have added a photograph of each one.
See below the genera of which I photographed at least two specie. At the end, I have placed "Various genera". Here you will find a collection of genera with only one species photographed. To make it easier you can find the genus name combined with the species name (visible when displaying the photograph)
Mitrospingid Tanager and Cardinals and Allies are also included in this page
Updated 21/05/2020
Genus Tangara - Typical colorful Tanagers. Photographed 17 of 27 species
Tanagers (Genus Tangara)
Bay-headed Tanager - Tangara gyrola
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Bay-headed_Tanager_-_Tangara_gyrola.jpg
Beryl-spangled Tanager - Tangara nigroviridis
Blue-browed Tanager - Tangara cyanotis
Blue-necked Tanager - Tangara cyanicollis
Burnished-buff Tanager - Tangara cayana
Emerald Tanager - Tangara florida
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Emerald_Tanager_-_Tangara_florida.jpg
Flame-faced Tanager - Tangara parzudakii
Gilt-edged Tanager - Tangara cyanoventris
Golden Tanager - Tangara arthus
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Golden_Tanager_-_Tangara_arthus.jpg
Golden-hooded Tanager - Tangara larvata
Green-headed Tanager - Tangara seledon
Rufous-winged Tanager - Tangara lavinia
Saffran-crowned Tanager - Tangara xanthocephala
Silvery Tanager (f) - Tangara viridicollis
Silver-throated Tanager - Tangara icterocephala
Spangled-cheeked Tanager - Tangara dowii
Turquoise Tanager - Tangara mexicana
Genus Traupis - Typical colorful Tanagers. Photographed 7 of 8 species
Tanagers (Genus Traupis)
Azure-shouldered Tanager - Thraupis cyanoptera
Blue and Yellow Tanager - Thraupis bonariensis
Blue-capped Tanager - Thraupis cyanocephala
Blue-grey Tanager - Thraupis episcopus
Golden-chevroned Tanager - Thraupis ornata
Palm Tanager - Thraupis palmarum
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Palm_Tanager_-_Thraupis_palmarum.jpg
Sayaca Tanager - Thraupis sayaca
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Sayaca_Tanager_-_Thraupis_sayaca.jpg
Genus Tachyphonus. Photographed 3 of 8 species
Tanagers (Genus Tachyphonus)
Flame-crested Tanager - Tachyphonus cristatus
Flame-crested Tanager (f) - Tachyphonus cristatus
White-lined Tanager - Tachyphonus rufus
White-lined Tanager (f) - Tachyphonus rufus
White-shouldered Tanager - Tachyphonus luctuosus
Genus Ramphocelus. Photographed 8 of 9 species
Tanagers (Genus Ramphocelus)
Black-bellied Tanager - Ramphocelus melanogaster
Brazilian Tanager - Ramphocelus bresilia
Crimson-backed Tanager - Ramphocelus dimidiatus
Crimson-collared Tanager - Ramphocelus sanguinolentus
Lemon-rumped Tanager - Ramphocelus icteronotus
Passarini's Tanager - Ramphocelus passerinii
Scarlet-rumped Tanager - Ramphocelus passerinii
Silver-beaked Tanager - Ramphocelus carbo
Genus Diglossa - Flowerpiercer. Photographed 6 of 18 species
Tanagers (Genus Diglossa) - Flowerpiercers
Black Flowerpiercer - Diglossa humeralis
Glossy Flowerpiercer - Diglossa lafresnayii
Indigo Flowerpiercer - Diglossa indigotica
Masked Flowerpiercer - Diglossa cyanea
Slaty Flowerpiercer - Diglossa plumbea
White-sided Flowerpiercer - Diglossa albilatera
Genus Conirostrum - Conebills. Photographed 2 of 11 species
Tanagers (Genus Conirostrum) - Conebills
Blue-backed Conebill - Conirostrum sitticolor
Cinereous Conebill - Conirostrum cinereum
9 different Genera - Mountain Tanagers. Photographed 7 of 21 species
Tanagers (9 different genera) - Mountain Tanagers
Black-chested Mountain Tanager - Buthraupis eximia
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager - Anisognathus somptuosus
Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager - Dubusia taeniata
Hooded Mountain Tanager - Buthraupis montana
Lachrymose Mountain Tanager - Anisognathus lacrymosus
Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager - Anisognathus igniventris
5 different Genera - Honeycreepers. Photographed 5 of 16 species
Tanagers (5 different genera) - Honeycreepers
Blue Dacnis - Dacnis cayana
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Blue_Dacnis_-_Dacnis_cayana.jpg
Green Honeycreeper - Chlorophanes spiza
Indigo Flowerpiercer - Diglossa indigotica
Red-legged Honeycreeper - Cyanerpes cyaneus
Swallow Tanager - Tersina viridis
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Swallow_Tanager_-_Tersina_viridis.jpg
2 different Genus (Geospiza, Camarhynchus) - Darwin Finches. Photographed 7 of 14 species
Tanagers - Darwin Finches
Common Cactus Finch - Geospiza scandens
Grey Warbler Finch - Certhidea fusca
Large Ground Finch - Geospiza magnirostris
Large Tree finch - Camarhynchus psittacula
Medium Ground finch - Geospiza fortis
Medium Ground Finch (f) - Geospiza fortis
Small Ground Finch - Geospiza fuliginosa
Woodpecker Finch - Camarhynchus pallidus
Genus Phrygilus - Sierra Finches. Photographed 6 of 11 species
Tanagers Genus Phrygilus - Sierra Finches
Ash-breasted Sierra-Finch (f) - Phrygilus plebejus
Band-tailed Sierra Finch - Phrygilus alaudinus
Black-hooded Sierra-Finch - Phrygilus atriceps
Grey-hooded Sierra-Finch - Phrygilus gayi
Mourning Sierra-Finch - Phrygilus fruticeti
Mourning Sierra Finch (f) - Phrygilus fruticeti
Patagonian Sierra-Finch - Phrygilus patagonicus
Plumbeous Sierra-Finch - Phrygilus unicolor
Plumbeous Sierra Finch (f) - Phrygilus unicolor
Genus Sicalis - Yellow Finches. Photographed 6 of 13 species
Tanagers Genus Cicalis - Yellow Finches
Grassland Yellow Finch (f) - Sicalis luteola
Greater Yellow-Finch - Sicalis auriventris
Greenish Yellow-Finch - Sicalis olivascens
Orange-fronted Yellow Finch - Sicalis columbiana
Patagonian Yellow-Finch - Sicalis lebruni
Saffron Finch - Sicalis flaveola
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Saffron_Finch_-_Sicalis_flaveola.jpg
Saffron Finch (f) - Sicalis flaveola
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Saffron_Finch_f_-_Sicalis_flaveola.jpg
Genus Saltator - Saltators. Photographed 4 of 15 species
Tanagers - Genus Saltator
Black-headed Saltator - Saltator atriceps
Buff-throated Saltator - Saltator maximus
Green-winged Saltator - Saltator similis
Greyish Saltator - Saltator coerulescens
Genus - Cardinals. Photographed 4 of 6 species
Tanagers - Genus Paroaria - Cardinals
Masked Cardinal - Paroaria nigrogenis
Red-capped Cardinal - Paroaria gularis
Red-crested Cardinal - Paroaria coronata
Yellow-billed Cardinal - Paroaria capitata
2 different Genus (Sporophila, Catamenia) - Seedeaters. Photographed 10 of 44 species
Tanagers - Seedeaters
Chestnut-bellied Seedeater - Sporophila castaneiventris
Chestnut-bellied Seedeater (f) - Sporophila castaneiventris
Chestnut-throated Seedeater - Sporophila telasco
Double-collared Seedeater - Sporophila caerulescens
Grey Seedeater - Sporophila intermedia
Paramo Seedeater - Catamenia homochroa
Plain-colored Seedeater - Catamenia inornata
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater - Sporophila minuta
Variable Seedeater - Sporophila corvina
Variable Seedeater (f) - Sporophila corvina
Wing-barred Seedeater - Sporophila americana
Yellow-bellied Seedeater - Sporophila nigricollis
Various genera. See the scientific name on the photograph
Tanagers (Genus Various)
Bananaquit - Coereba flaveola
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Bananaquit_-_Coereba_flaveola.jpg
Black-backed Bush Tanager - Urothraupis stolzmanni
Black-faced Tanager - Schistochlamys melanopis
Blue-black Grassquit - Volatinia jacarina
Common Diuca Finch - Diuca diuca
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Tanagers/Common_Diuca_Finch_-_Diuca_diuca.jpg
Magpie Tanager - Cissopis leverianus
Red-rumped Warbling-Finch - Microspingus lateralis_
White-winged Shrike-Tanager - Lanio versicolor
Yellow-faced Grassquit - Tiaris olivaceus
Yellow-throated Tanager - Iridosornis analis
Mitrospingid Tanagers is a small family containing four “tanager” species that have been united recently by molecular analyses.
The family is Mitrospingidae
There are 4 species placed in 3 genera.
So far I have photographed 2 different species.
Tanagers (3 different genera) - Mitrospingid Tanagers Dusky-faced Tanager - Mitrospingus cassinii Olive-green Tanager - Orthogonys chloricterus
Cardinals and Allies are passerine birds found in North and South America. They are also known as cardinal-grosbeaks and cardinal-buntings. Historically, the South American cardinals in the genus Paroaria have been placed in the tanager family Thraupidae. However, DNA analysis of the genera Piranga (which includes the scarlet tanager, summer tanager, and western tanager), Chlorothraupis, and Habia showed their closer relationship to the cardinal family. They have been reassigned to that family by the American Ornithological Society.
The family is Cardinalidae
There are 49 species placed in 14 genera. So far I have photographed 8 different species. Of several species, I photographed male as well as female. If so I have added a photograph of each one.
Genus - Piranga - Tanagers. Photographed 3 of 9 species
Tanagers (Genus Piranga)
Flame-colored Tanager - Piranga bidentata
Hepatic Tanager - Piranga hepatica
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cardinals/Hepatic_Tanager_-_Piranga_hepatica.jpg
Hepatic Tanager (f) - Piranga hepatica
Summer Tanager - Piranga rubra
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cardinals/Summer_Tanager_-_Piranga_rubra.jpg
Genus - Habia - Ant-Tanagers. Photographed 2 of 5 species
Cardinals (Genus Habia) - Ant Tanagers
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager (f) - Habia rubica
Red-throated Ant-Tanager - Habia fuscicauda
Grosbeaks. (Pheucticus, Passerina). Photographed 3 of 13 species
Cardinals - Grosbeaks
Black-thighed Grosbeak - Pheucticus tibialis
Blue Grosbeak (f) - Passerina caerulea
https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cardinals/Blue_Grosbeak_-_Passerina_caerulea.jpg
Golden Grosbeak - Pheucticus chrysogaster