Flame-faced Tanager - BirdForum Opus

Photo by wim de groot
Reserva Las Grallarias, Ecuador, March 2011

Tangara parzudakii

Identification

14–15 cm (5½-6 in)

• Red face

Distribution

North-west South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru

Taxonomy

Photo by Digitalbcon
Chicaque Natural Park, San Antonio del Tequendama, Cundinamarca Colombia, July 2009

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• T. p. parzudakii:

• Andes of Colombia to south-western Venezuela, eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru

• T. p. lunigera:

• Pacific slope of Colombia and western Ecuador

• T. p. urubambae:

• South-eastern Peru (Cordillera Urubamba in Cuzco)

Habitat

Cloudforest.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of fruit and arthropods and some seeds.

Juvenile
Photo by Stanley Jones
Abra Patricia Reserve, Owlet Lodge, Amazonas, Peru, January 2017

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved April 2017)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Flame-faced Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 March 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Flame-faced_Tanager

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