Seven-colored Tanager Tangara fastuosa Scientific name definitions

Seven-colored Tanager is a small brilliantly colored bird with a turquoise green head, bright blue underparts, a black back, and bright orange lower back and rump. Within its restricted range in northeastern Brazil, this species occurs in forest and bushy second growth where it searches for fruits and arthropods. Due to its overall rarity, very little information is known on this species' biology. Often kept as a cage bird, it also suffers from habitat loss and habitat conversion. Captive birds have been released back into the wild, but due to its restricted range and small, fragmented population, which is believed to be in decline, the IUCN Red List conservation status of Seven-colored Tanager is assessed as Vulnerable.