Chestnut-backed Tanager

Chestnut-backed TanagerThis tanager lives in forests and forest edges of southeastern South America, feeding on fruit and canopy insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.What does it look like?Males have a golden-rufous to chestnut head and back, yellowish rump, and blue-green underparts. Females are greenish above with a chestnut crown and paler underparts.How does it live?This tanager lives in forests and forest edges of southeastern South America, feeding on fruit and canopy insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.It uses forest edges up to about 1,000 m, feeds on fruit and canopy insects, and often joins mixed-species flocks. Northern movement in the southernmost populations is considered possible but is not confirmed migration.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.