Red-necked Tanager

Tangara cyanocephala

Blue crown, red neck, green body: a bird that couldn't pick a lane. Haunts the Atlantic Forest edge at fruit trees.

Population: Not numerically quantified by IUCN/BirdLife DataZone (population size unset/unavailable in accessible mirrors); species described in secondary sources as common with a presumed stable population trend
Habitat: Subtropical/tropical moist lowland and foothill forest, forest edge, wooded urban areas, and heavily degraded former forest; also disjunct highland forest populations in Ceará
Fun fact: The Red-necked Tanager combines bright scarlet-red, grass-green, dark blue, and orange-yellow plumage patches, and regularly forages in mixed-species flocks with the closely related Green-headed Tanager.
Range: Eastern South America, essentially endemic to eastern Brazil (continuous from southern Bahia/Espírito Santo south to Rio Grande do Sul, plus disjunct highland/lowland populations in Ceará, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Alagoas), with range extending into northeastern Argentina and eastern Paraguay
Diet: Small fruits/berries, insects and larvae, and nectar/pollen; forages in midstory/subcanopy, often in mixed-species flocks with the closely related Green-headed Tanager, and visits fruit feeding stations
Size: 0.115 m

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