fauna

Red-necked Tanagers (Tangara cyanocephala), Brazil

- Found in various forest types in central/southern South America

(photos: T/M - males, by Claudio Timm; B - juvenile male, by Dario Sanches)

fairy-wren: Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) 

(top - female; bttm - male) - South America

(photos by priscilla burcher)

fairy-wren:

The Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata) is a bird species in the tanager family (Thraupidae). It was formerly placed in the Emberizidae, and notwithstanding its common name, it is not very closely related to the true cardinals (family Cardinalidae).

It is found in northern Argentina, Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and heavily degraded former forest. Among other regions, it is found in southern part of the Pantanal.

It has also been introduced to Hawaii and Puerto Rico. In Brazil, it has been introduced to various places outside its historical range, as in the Tietê Ecological Park in São Paulo, alongside with its very similar-looking close relative, the Red-cowled Cardinal (P. dominicana).

(photos by silence of the clams and little laddie)

fairy-wren: Gold-ringed Tanager (Bangsia aureocincta)

- endemic to Colombia

(photos by pete morris)

fairy-wren: Speckled Tanager (Tangara guttata)

- Central and South America

(photos via lynxeds and johnafdem)

fairy-wren: Crimson-collared Tanager (Ramphocelus sanguinolentus), Central America

(photos by nick athanas and raymond j barlow)

fairy-wren: Golden Tanager (Tangara arthus) - song

highlands of the Andes, South America

(photo by bob lewis)