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Flame-colored tanager

Piranga bidentata Swainson, 1827

LCLeast Concernsongbirds

The flame-colored tanager (Piranga bidentata) is a species in the family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 34.7 g to 37.2 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Flame-colored tanager (Piranga bidentata)
Photo: Jerry Oldenettel · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the flame-colored tanager

Weight
34.7 g – 37.2 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
2.4 – 2.45src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Partialsrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the flame-colored tanager live?

Not recorded

What is the flame-colored tanager?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

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.

From the Wikipedia article “Flame-colored tanager” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flame-colored_tanager&oldid=1346723821), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the flame-colored tanager endangered?

The flame-colored tanager is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

How is the flame-colored tanager classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyCardinalidae
  6. genusPiranga
  7. SpeciesPiranga bidentata Swainson, 1827

Synonyms Pyranga bidentata

Other names and names in other languages (39)
  • Flame-colored PirangaEnglish
  • Flame-coloured PirangaEnglish
  • Flame-coloured tanagerEnglish
  • Flame-coloured tanagerEnglish
  • Swainson's tanagerEnglish
  • tangara červenohnědáCzech
  • tanagr fflamgochWelsh
  • Pletvinget IldtangarDanish
  • BlutkardinalGerman
  • BluttangareGerman
  • flama kardinaloEsperanto
  • Piranga estriadaSpanish
  • Piranga Dorso RayadoSpanish
  • Tangara DorsirrayadaSpanish
  • Tángara dorso rayadoSpanish
  • kiriselg-leeklindEstonian
  • liekkitangaraFinnish
  • Piranga à dos rayéFrench
  • plamena pirangaCroatian
  • Tanagra flammeaItalian
  • Tanagra formichiera flammeaItalian
  • ホノオフウキンチョウJapanese
  • ugninė pirangaLithuanian
  • BloedtangareDutch
  • Gevlamde TangareDutch
  • Meso-Amerikaanse BloedtangareDutch
  • flammepirangaNorwegian
  • piranga ognistaPolish
  • piranga-estriadaPortuguese
  • Sanhaço-de-dorso-listradoPortuguese
  • sanhaço-estriadoPortuguese
  • Огненная пирангаRussian
  • piranga ohniváSlovak
  • fläckvingad tangaraSwedish
  • fläckvingad kardinalSwedish
  • Alevli PirangaTurkish
  • піранга вогнистаUkrainian
  • 焰領比藍雀Chinese
  • 火领丽唐纳雀Chinese

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Relatives of the flame-colored tanager

Other species in the same genus Piranga.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the flame-colored tanager?

An adult flame-colored tanager weighs 34.7 g – 37.2 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the flame-colored tanager endangered?

The flame-colored tanager is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the flame-colored tanager?

The flame-colored tanager (Piranga bidentata) belongs to the family Cardinalidae in the order Passeriformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Flame-colored tanager (Piranga bidentata). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/flame-colored-tanager

MLA

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BibTeX
@misc{flame_colored_tanager_2026,
  title = {Flame-colored tanager (Piranga bidentata)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/flame-colored-tanager},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}