Flame-colored Tanager
Piranga bidentata
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,432
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The flame-colored tanager (Piranga bidentata), 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 (7.1 to 7.5 in) long, the male having predominantly red-orange while the female is more yellowish orange.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Flame-colored tanager”.