Red-shouldered tanager

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| name = Red-shouldered tanager

| image = Red-shouldered Tanager.jpg

| image_caption = male

| image2 = Tachyphonus phoenicius Red-shouldered Tanager (female); Serra do Navio, Amapá, Brazil (cropped).jpg

| image2_caption = female

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=Tachyphonus phoenicius |volume=2018 |page=e.T22722403A132153241 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722403A132153241.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Tachyphonus

| species = phoenicius

| authority = Swainson, 1838

| synonyms =

| range_map = Tachyphonus phoenicius map.svg

}}

The red-shouldered tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.