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LOWLAND HEPATIC-TANAGER Piranga flava
A big red male with a big yellow female, they make an unusually brightly-coloured pair! The Lowland Hepatic-Tanager is a southern relative of the Northern Hepatic-Tanager which reaches the States. In fact, along with an Andean population the three birds were formerly considered a single species under the generic name Hepatic Tanager. However evidence suggests that these three populations are ecologically separate and so the component members cannot interbreed, in other words they act as three different species under the biological species concept.
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FIGURE 1 - Adult male ventral, Central Chaco (Aléjandro González October 2004 - Paraguayanbirds.com).
FIGURE 2 - Adult male, Fortín Toledo, Departamento Presidente Hayes (Marcelo Bombaci October 2007).
FIGURE 3 - Adult male ventral, Laguna Capitán, Cuenca Upper Yacaré Sur (Jerry Cooper October 2007).
FIGURE 4 - Adult male, Laguna Capitán, Cuenca Upper Yacaré Sur (Paul Smith October 2007).
FIGURE 5 - Adult female, Ruta Trans-Chaco km650 (Paul Smith July).
FIGURE 6 - Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith July).
FIGURE 7 - Adult female, Estancia Cachiveo, Departamento Boquerón (Arne Lesterhuis June 2007).
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