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title: "Sanhaço-cor-de-fogo"
description: "Piranga bidentata — Aves. The flame-colored tanager (Piranga bidentata), formerly known as the stripe-backed tanager, is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/flame-colored-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sanhaço-cor-de-fogo

> Piranga bidentata — Aves. The flame-colored tanager  (Piranga bidentata), formerly known as the stripe-backed tanager, is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks.

- Scientific name: *Piranga bidentata*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 3733
- Wikidata: [Q252741](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252741)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9922](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9922)

## Names

- en: Flame-colored Tanager
- de: Bluttangare
- es: Piranga Dorso Rayado
- fr: Piranga à dos rayé
- pt: Sanhaço-cor-de-fogo
- pl: Piranga ognista

## Countries with the most observations

CR (1485), MX (1158), PA (464), US (238), HN (98), GT (37), SV (20), NI (5)

## Summary

The flame-colored tanager  (Piranga bidentata), formerly known as the stripe-backed tanager, is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks. It is found from Mexico throughout Central America to northern Panama and occasionally in the United States; four subspecies are recognized. The flame-colored tanager is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long, the male having predominantly red-orange while the female is more yellowish orange.

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

## Photo

![Sanhaço-cor-de-fogo](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/flame-colored-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238511779

## Machine access

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