green-headed tanager

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| image = Green-headed tanager.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Tangara seledon |volume=2016 |page=e.T22722827A94787040 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722827A94787040.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| taxon = Tangara seledon

| authority = (Müller, PLS, 1776)

| range_map = Tangara seledon map.svg

}}

The green-headed tanager (Tangara seledon) is a brightly colored bird found in the Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, and far north-eastern Argentina (Misiones only).

As other members of the genus Tangara, it is a small colorful bird, measuring an average of 13.5 centimeters (5.3 in) and a mass of 18g (0.6 oz). The green-headed Tanager has a greenish or bluish head, black on the back, and a contrastingly colored, orange or red rump. Females and juvenile birds have similar, though duller coloration. While essentially a bird of humid forests, it is also common in orchards and parks,José Felipe Monteiro Pereira (2008). Aves e Pássaros Comuns do Rio de Janeiro. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro. pp. 128. {{ISBN|9788561368005}} where it moves through the canopy, making itself inconspicuous, as its apparently flashy blue-green coloration camouflages it well amongst the foliage.

==References==

{{Cite journal|url=https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/grhtan2/foodhabits|title=Green-headed Tanager - Diet and Foraging|journal=Birds of the World|date=2020 |publisher=Cornell University |last1=Agpaoa |first1=Jenelle |last2=Burns |first2=Kevin J. |doi=10.2173/bow.grhtan2.01 }}

Category:Tangara (genus)

Category:Birds of the Atlantic Forest

Category:Birds described in 1776

Category:Taxa named by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller