Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata)
About the Flame-colored Tanager
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.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 104 recordings for this species: 9 CC BY-NC-SA · 5 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Red-hooded TanagerPiranga rubricepsrecording
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacearecording
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubrarecording
- Tooth-billed TanagerPiranga lutearecording
- Western TanagerPiranga ludovicianarecording
- White-winged TanagerPiranga leucopterarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.