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Paradise tanager

Tangara chilensis (Vigors, 1832)

LCLeast Concernsongbirds

The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a species in the family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 19.8 g to 21 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis)
Photo: thibaudaronson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the paradise tanager

Weight
19.8 g – 21 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 paradise tanager live?

Not recorded

What is the paradise tanager?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15 cm (5.3 to 6"). It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage.The vivid colours of the paradise tanager have been linked to underlying achromatic feather layers (black or white) that enhance the brilliance of structural colours. Depending on subspecies, the behind is yellow and red or all red. The beak is black and the legs are grey. It is native to the Amazon rainforest.

Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, the species can be found in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Chile.

From the Wikipedia article “Paradise tanager” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paradise_tanager&oldid=1372376000), 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.

Is the paradise tanager endangered?

The paradise 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. What the categories mean.

How is the paradise tanager classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyThraupidae
  6. genusTangara
  7. SpeciesTangara chilensis (Vigors, 1832)
Other names and names in other languages (34)
  • tàngara del paradísCatalan
  • tangara sedmibarváCzech
  • ParadistangarDanish
  • SiebenfarbentangareGerman
  • ParadiestangareGerman
  • paradiza tangaroEsperanto
  • Tangara paraísoSpanish
  • Tangara del paraísoSpanish
  • Tángara sietecoloresSpanish
  • vikertangaraEstonian
  • paratiisitangaraFinnish
  • Tangara septicoloreFrench
  • Calliste septicoloreFrench
  • šarena tangaraCroatian
  • chilei tangaraHungarian
  • Tanagra del paradisoItalian
  • ナナイロフウキンチョウJapanese
  • rojinė tanagraLithuanian
  • ParadijstangareDutch
  • paradistanagarNorwegian
  • tangarka zielonogłowaPolish
  • Sete-coresPortuguese
  • sete-cores-da-amazóniaPortuguese
  • sete-cores-da-amazôniaPortuguese
  • tangará-do-paraísoPortuguese
  • sicchaQuechua
  • Райская танаграRussian
  • tangara sedemfarebnáSlovak
  • Rajska tangaraSerbian
  • paradistangaraSwedish
  • Cennet TangarasıTurkish
  • танагра зеленоголоваUkrainian
  • 仙靓唐纳雀Chinese
  • 五彩唐加拉雀Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistTAXREFWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the paradise tanager

Other species in the same genus Tangara.

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Common questions

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How big is the paradise tanager?

An adult paradise tanager weighs 19.8 g – 21 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the paradise tanager endangered?

The paradise 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 paradise tanager?

The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) belongs to the family Thraupidae in the order Passeriformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/paradise-tanager

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BibTeX
@misc{paradise_tanager_2026,
  title = {Paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/paradise-tanager},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}