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Flame-faced tanager

Tangara parzudakii (Lafresnaye, 1843)

LCLeast Concernsongbirds

The flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii) is a species in the family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 28 g to 29.5 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii)
Photo: Eleanor Briccetti · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the flame-faced tanager

Weight
28 g – 29.5 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Frugivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
2src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the flame-faced tanager live?

Not recorded

What is the flame-faced tanager?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is endemic to South America and is found in the eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is a distinctive-looking species with black and opalescent green upperparts, opalescent green and buff underparts, and a deep red and yellow face. The subspecies lunigera lacks the deep red on the face, which is replaced with orangish-red.

It is omnivorous and feeds on fruit and arthropods. Foraging is conducted nearly exclusively on mossy branches. Breeding occurs in the rainy season. Eggs are laid in clutches of two, and are white with pale brown flecking concentrated on the larger end. Fledglings are fed by both parents. The flame-faced tanager is listed as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on the IUCN Red List. However, it is facing population declines due to habitat destruction.

From the Wikipedia article “Flame-faced tanager” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flame-faced_tanager&oldid=1380747888), 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-faced tanager endangered?

The flame-faced 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-faced tanager classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyThraupidae
  6. genusTangara
  7. SpeciesTangara parzudakii (Lafresnaye, 1843)
Other names and names in other languages (27)
  • tàngara cara de focCatalan
  • tangara červenočeláCzech
  • Rødøret TangarDanish
  • RotstirntangareGerman
  • flamomaska tangaroEsperanto
  • tangara carafuegoSpanish
  • Tangara carirrojaSpanish
  • liekkipäätangaraFinnish
  • Calliste à face rougeFrench
  • plamenoglava tangaraCroatian
  • Tanagra facciaflammeaItalian
  • アカガオフウキンチョウJapanese
  • ugniaveidė tanagraLithuanian
  • VuurmaskertangareDutch
  • ildhodetanagarNorwegian
  • tangarka ognistogłowaPolish
  • saíra-cara-de-fogoPortuguese
  • tangará-de-faces-vermelhasPortuguese
  • Огненнолицая танаграRussian
  • Огненнолобая танаграRussian
  • tangara ohnivohlaváSlovak
  • Crvenolika tangaraSerbian
  • brandkronad tangaraSwedish
  • Alev Suratlı TangaraTurkish
  • танагра вогнистощокаUkrainian
  • 火脸靓唐纳雀Chinese
  • 焰臉唐加拉雀Chinese

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Relatives of the flame-faced tanager

Other species in the same genus Tangara.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the flame-faced tanager?

An adult flame-faced tanager weighs 28 g – 29.5 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the flame-faced tanager endangered?

The flame-faced 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-faced tanager?

The flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii) belongs to the family Thraupidae in the order Passeriformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/flame-faced-tanager

MLA

“Flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/flame-faced-tanager.

BibTeX
@misc{flame_faced_tanager_2026,
  title = {Flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/flame-faced-tanager},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}