Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata)

Other Names (World)
Flame-colored Tanager, Flame-coloured Tanager, Striped Tanager, Swainson's Tanager

Family
Cardinalidae (Cardinals)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1827)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest. From 800 - 1,800 m, occasionally up to 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, USA.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (27)...)

Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) [XC610956]
by Liliana Chavarria-Duriaux from Hotel Savegre, San Gerardo de Dota, San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica (call)

Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) [XC334972]
by Richard E. Webster from Campamento El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
Molecular-genetic evidence indicates that this genus forms a monophyletic group with Habia and Chlorothraupis, and that all three are more closely related to cardinals (Cardinalidae) than to true tanagers.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

bidentata (Swainson, 1827) - Extreme south-western USA (southern Arizona, western Texas), and western Mexico from Sonora and Chihuahua south to Guerrero and east to vicinity of Mexico City.
flammea Ridgway, 1887 - Western Mexico (Nayarit and Tres Mar��as Is).
sanguinolenta Lafresnaye, 1839 - Eastern Mexico (from Nuevo Le�n and Tamaulipas) south to Guatemala, north-western Honduras and northern El Salvador.
citrea van Rossem, 1934 - Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.

References
See References.

Files:

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