- Flame-colored Tanager
Taxobox
name = Flame-colored Tanager
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia =Cardinalidae
genus = "Piranga "
species = "P. bidentata"
binomial = "Piranga bidentata"
binomial_authority = (Swainson, 1827)The Flame-colored Tanager (also Striped Tanager, Swainson's Tanager, Flame-coloured Tanager), "Piranga bidentata", is a medium-sized American
songbird . Traditionally placed in thetanager family (Thraupidae) it is now thought to be much closer to cardinals (Cardinalidae ).A tropical
passerine bird , the Flame-colored Tanager is found in the mountains ofMexico , and throughoutCentral America to northernPanama ; it is occasionally seen in theUnited States in the mountains in the southeast corner ofArizona , the southwest ofNew Mexico andSonora (theMadrean sky islands of the northern portion of the western Mexican mountain range,Sierra Madre Occidental ), and also the southwest corner ofTexas .References
* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
Ext links
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=9162 Flame-colored Tanager videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=flame-colored+tanager&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Flame-colored Tanager photo gallery] VIREO
* [http://fireflyforest.net/images/firefly/2007/May/Piranga-bidentata-1.jpgPhoto-High Res] ; [http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/05/07/flame-colored-tanager/ Article, w/ synopsis and photo gallery] – fireflyforest.net–"Arizona Birds"-(The Firefly Forest)
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