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Western tanager
Piranga ludoviciana · Family Cardinalidae
Piranga ludoviciana
Family Cardinalidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cardinalidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,449,742
- Countries and territories with records
- 18
About this species
This species has 1,449,742 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (83.8%), Canada (9.7%) and Mexico (4.7%); together they account for 98.2% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.11% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Piranga ludoviciana combines the genus name Piranga with the species epithet ludoviciana. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Piranga; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Piranga rubra, Piranga olivacea and Piranga flava.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 47 species of the family Cardinalidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cardinalis cardinalis. Its record count is 1.5 times the family average (967,279). The family Cardinalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.