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Male bidentata
Photo by ixodid
Madera Canyon, Arizona, USA, May 2006

Piranga bidentata

Identification

Both sexes have black (or at least dark) wings and tail with two white wing bars and white tail corners. The mantle is striped, that is a difference from most similar tanagers.

Distribution

Female citrea
Photo by Stanley Jones
Dantica Cloud Forest Lodge, Cordillera de Talamanca, San José Province, Costa Rica, March 2007

Mountains from Mexico to western Panama. Occasionally found in the southeast corner of Arizona and in southwestern Texas.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• P. b. bidentata:

• Western Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Guerrero and Morelos) and also occasional found in Arizona and Texas

• P. b. citrea:

• Highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama

• P. b. flammea:

• Endemic to the Tres Marías Islands

• P. b. sanguinolenta:

• Eastern Mexico (Nuevo León and Tamaulipas) to El Salvador

Habitat

Juvenile
Photo by scottishdude
Costa Rica, April, 2011

Humid montane forests.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

• List of references

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