Species profile
Vermilion Tanager
Calochaetes coccineus
Quick answer
Andes of se Colombia to Ecuador and e Peru (Cuzco)
- Scientific name
- Calochaetes coccineus
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Calochaetes
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Vermilion Tanager in your journal
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- Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis)
- Band-tailed Sierra Finch (Porphyrospiza alaudina)
- Barbados Bullfinch (Loxigilla barbadensis)
- Bay-chested Warbling-finch (Castanozoster thoracicus)