Hepatic Tanager

Hepatic TanagerThis tanager ranges from the United States to Nicaragua. The Texas atlas distinguishes P. hepatica from the older broad treatment as P. flava and describes its Texas breeding habitat in dry juniper-pinyon or pine-oak woodland.What does it look like?Males are brick-red. In females, the male’s red is replaced by olive-yellow or orange-yellow.How does it live?This tanager ranges from the United States to Nicaragua. The Texas atlas distinguishes P. hepatica from the older broad treatment as P. flava and describes its Texas breeding habitat in dry juniper-pinyon or pine-oak woodland.In Texas it breeds in dry juniper-pinyon or pine-oak woodland at 1,500–2,400 m, placing its nest in a horizontal fork away from the trunk.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.