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Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata)

Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) - Male
Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) - Male

About Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Perching Birds
  • Family: Tanagers and Allies

The flame-colored tanager, formerly known as the stripe-backed tanager, is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks. It is found from Mexico throughout Central America to northern Panama and occasionally in the United States; four subspecies are recognized. The flame-colored tanager is 18 to 19 cm long, the male having predominantly red-orange while the female is more yellowish orange.

Source: Wikipedia

Visits

  • 2008-01-10

    Tepic - Cerro de San Juan, Mexico
    Image from 2008-01-10
    Image from 2008-01-10
  • 2009-02-03

    Los Tarrales, Guatemala
  • 2020-02-01

    San Sebastian del Oeste, Mexico
    Image from 2020-02-01
  • 2024-04-06

    Laguna de Sanchez, Mexico