Hepatic Tanager

Piranga flava

IUCN: Not Evaluated

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cardinalidae
Genus
Piranga
eBird Code
heptan

Subspecies (15)

  • Piranga flava albifacies

    montane oak-pine belt of western Guatemala to northern Nicaragua

  • Piranga flava desidiosa

    upper tropical and subtropical southwestern Colombia

  • Piranga flava dextra

    southwestern USA (east of Rockies) and eastern Mexico; winters to western Guatemala

  • Piranga flava faceta

    mountains of northern Colombia, northern Venezuela, and Trinidad

  • Piranga flava figlina

    lowland pine savanna of eastern Guatemala and Belize

  • Piranga flava flava

    southern Bolivia (Cochabamba) to Uruguay and northern Argentina

  • Piranga flava haemalea

    mountains of southern Venezuela, western Guyana, and far northern Brazil

  • Piranga flava hepatica

    southwestern USA and western Mexico (southward to Guerrero and Oaxaca)

  • Piranga flava lutea

    far southwestern Colombia to western Ecuador, Peru, and northwestern Bolivia

  • Piranga flava macconnelli

    southern Guyana and adjacent far northern Brazil (Roraima)

  • Piranga flava rosacea

    eastern Bolivia (Santa Cruz to Chiquitos)

  • Piranga flava saira

    eastern and southern Brazil (both banks of Amazon River in Amapá and central Pará; and from central Maranhão and central Piauí southward to eastern and southern Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul)

  • Piranga flava savannarum

    lowland pine savanna of eastern Honduras and northeastern Nicaragua

  • Piranga flava testacea

    subtropical Costa Rica and Panama (eastward to Punta Garachiné)

  • Piranga flava toddi

    west slope of eastern Andes of Colombia (Magdalena)

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.