Flame-colored Tanager
Piranga bidentata
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
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.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cardinalidae
- Genus
- Piranga