Orange-headed Tanager
Photo: Dario Sanches from São Paulo, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0

Tanagers and Allies

Orange-headed Tanager

Thlypopsis sordida

LCLeast Concern
Family
Tanagers and Allies (Thraupidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The orange-headed tanager (Thlypopsis sordida) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Native to South America, it is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela, where it inhabits successional vegetation, cerrado, riparian forest, shrub, brush, and open woodland. Males of the species have sandy-gray upperparts, cinnamon to buff underparts, white on the center of the lower breast, belly, and tail, and rufous-orange and yellow heads. Females are similar but duller.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.