Editing Tanager (section)

{{Short description|Family of birds}}
{{For|the Italian river known in Latin as Tanager|Tanagro}}
{{Other uses|Tanager (disambiguation)}}
{{distinguish|Tangier}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2014}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Tanagers
| image = Thraupidae Diversity.jpg
| taxon = Thraupidae
| authority = [[Jean Cabanis|Cabanis]], 1847
| type_genus = ''[[Thraupis]]''
| type_genus_authority = [[Friedrich Boie|Boie, F.]], 1826 
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision  = Many: see text

| range_map = Thraupidae map.svg
}}
The '''tanagers''' (singular {{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|æ|n|ə|dʒ|ər}}) comprise the bird [[family (biology)|family]] '''Thraupidae''', in the order [[Passeriformes]]. The family has a [[Neotropical]] distribution and is the second-largest family of birds. It represents about 4% of all avian species and 12% of the [[Neotropical]] birds.<ref name=burns2014/>

Traditionally, the family contained around 240 species of mostly brightly colored fruit-eating birds.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Storer | first=Robert W. | author-link=Robert W. Storer | chapter=Subfamily Thraupinae | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=246–408 | chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483481 }}</ref> As more of these birds were studied using modern molecular techniques, it became apparent that the traditional families were not [[monophyletic]]. ''[[Euphonia]]'' and ''[[Chlorophonia]]'', which were once considered part of the tanager family, are now treated as members of the [[Fringillidae]], in their own subfamily ([[Euphoniinae]]). Likewise, the genera ''[[Piranga]]'' (which includes the [[scarlet tanager]], [[summer tanager]], and [[western tanager]]), ''[[Chlorothraupis]]'', and ''[[Habia (bird)|Habia]]'' appear to be members of the family [[Cardinalidae]],<ref name= YM2002>{{cite journal|last1=Yuri|first1=T.|last2=Mindell|first2=D. P.|title=Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Fringillidae, "New World nine-primaried oscines" (Aves: Passeriformes)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution| volume= 23| issue= 2|date= May 2002|pages= 229–243| doi= 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00012-X| pmid=12069553|bibcode=2002MolPE..23..229Y }}</ref> and have been reassigned to that family by the [[American Ornithological Society]].<ref>{{cite web | publisher=American Ornithological Society | url=http://checklist.aou.org/taxa/3008 | title=Family: Cardinalidae | access-date=Feb 1, 2019}}</ref>
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