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title: "Vuurmaskertangare"
description: "Tangara parzudakii — Vogels. The flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/flame-faced-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Vuurmaskertangare

> Tangara parzudakii — Vogels. The flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

- Scientific name: *Tangara parzudakii*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `mountains` (Bergen)
- iNaturalist observations: 1250
- Wikidata: [Q1720561](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1720561)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9573](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9573)

## Names

- en: Flame-faced Tanager
- de: Rotstirntangare
- es: Tangara carafuego
- fr: Calliste à face rouge
- nl: Vuurmaskertangare
- pt: Saíra-cara-de-fogo
- pl: Tangarka ognistogłowa

## Countries with the most observations

EC (965), CO (147), PE (72)

## Summary

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…

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

## Photo

![Vuurmaskertangare](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/flame-faced-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: Crispin Holloway · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144664338

## Machine access

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