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Emerald tanager

Tangara florida (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1869)

LCLeast Concernsongbirds

The emerald tanager (Tangara florida) is a species in the family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 18 g to 19.3 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Emerald tanager (Tangara florida)
Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the emerald tanager

Weight
18 g – 19.3 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Frugivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
2src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the emerald tanager live?

Not recorded

What is the emerald tanager?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The emerald tanager (Tangara florida) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama. Described by the English ornithologists PL Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1869, it is a medium-sized species that has a length of 10.6–13 cm (4.2–5.1 in) and a mass of 18–20.5 g (0.63–0.72 oz). It can be identified by its bright green plumage, with black streaking on the back and wings, and a black auricular patch and beak. It also has yellow on the crown and rump. The species shows slight sexual dimorphism, with the females being duller and having yellow-green in place of yellow on the head.

The emerald tanager mainly inhabits humid lowland forest, montane evergreen forest, and secondary forest at elevations of 500–900 m (1,600–3,000 ft) but can be found from 100–1,200 m (330–3,940 ft). It is omnivorous and feeds mainly on fruit, flowers, and flower buds, supplementing its diet with arthropods. It breeds from March to May in Costa Rica and from January to April in Colombia. The emerald tanager makes cup nests out of moss, where eggs are laid in clutches of two.

It is listed as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on the IUCN Red List due to its sufficiently large range and a lack of significant population decline, but is threatened by habitat destruction.

From the Wikipedia article “Emerald tanager” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emerald_tanager&oldid=1354935702), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

What does the emerald tanager sound like?

Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Is the emerald tanager endangered?

The emerald tanager is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

How is the emerald tanager classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyThraupidae
  6. genusTangara
  7. SpeciesTangara florida (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1869)

Synonyms Calliste florida, Tangara florida auriceps, Tangara florida florida

Other names and names in other languages (31)
  • تناجر زمرديArabic
  • تناجر زمردىEgyptian Arabic
  • Изумрудена тангараBulgarian
  • tàngara verdaCatalan
  • tangara smaragdováCzech
  • tanagr emralltWelsh
  • SmaragdtangarDanish
  • Smaragd-TangareGerman
  • smeralda tangaroEsperanto
  • Tangara floridaSpanish
  • Tangara OrejinegraSpanish
  • keltalakkitangaraFinnish
  • Calliste émeraudeFrench
  • smaragdnotrba tangaraCroatian
  • Tangara smeraldoItalian
  • Tanagra smeraldinaItalian
  • キゴシミドリフウキンチョウJapanese
  • smaragdinė tanagraLithuanian
  • SmaragdtangareDutch
  • smaragdtanagarNorwegian
  • tangarka szmaragdowaPolish
  • Saíra esmeraldaPortuguese
  • saíra-esmeraldaPortuguese
  • tangará-esmeraldaPortuguese
  • Изумрудная танаграRussian
  • Smaragdna tangaraSerbian
  • smaragdtangaraSwedish
  • Zümrüt TangaraTurkish
  • танагра смарагдоваUkrainian
  • 翠绿靓唐纳雀Chinese
  • 綠寶石唐加拉雀Chinese

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Relatives of the emerald tanager

Other species in the same genus Tangara.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the emerald tanager?

An adult emerald tanager weighs 18 g – 19.3 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the emerald tanager endangered?

The emerald tanager is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the emerald tanager?

The emerald tanager (Tangara florida) belongs to the family Thraupidae in the order Passeriformes.

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APA

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BibTeX
@misc{emerald_tanager_2026,
  title = {Emerald tanager (Tangara florida)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/emerald-tanager},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}