#1063 · 🐦 birds

Summer Tanager

🇳🇱 Zomertangare ·Piranga rubra

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Ricardo Arredondo T. · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © TVASQUEZ · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Rachel Hall · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © lonnyholmes · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Rachel Hall · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Alejandra Monsiváis · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Félix Uribe · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © shzimmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © tcantrell52 · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The summer tanager ( Piranga rubra ), is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it and other members of its genus are now classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species's plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 55,197iNaturalist observations
weight 29 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
55,197 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 29 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).