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title: "White-winged Tanager"
description: "Piranga leucoptera — Birds. The white-winged tanager (Piranga leucoptera) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/white-winged-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White-winged Tanager

> Piranga leucoptera — Birds. The white-winged tanager (Piranga leucoptera) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks.

- Scientific name: *Piranga leucoptera*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 1268
- Wikidata: [Q3117574](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3117574)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9920](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9920)

## Names

- en: White-winged Tanager
- de: Weißbindentangare
- es: Piranga Alas Blancas
- fr: Piranga bifascié
- pt: Sanhaço-de-asa-branca
- pl: Piranga białoskrzydła

## Countries with the most observations

MX (570), EC (145), GT (90), CR (54), VE (46), PA (45), SV (45), CO (21), PE (18), BO (16), HN (12), NI (8)

## Summary

The white-winged tanager (Piranga leucoptera) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks. It is found from Mexico, through Central America, across northern South America and as far south as Bolivia.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-winged_tanager

## Photo

![White-winged Tanager](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-winged-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195515826

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-winged-tanager?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).