The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.

There four subspecies of Piranga flava:[2] The red tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the flava subspecies group (lowland hepatic tanager).

[3][4] However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga lutea (the tooth-billed tanager).

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