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Piranga bidentata

Photo by LisaW
Photographed: Madera Canyon, South of Tucson, Arizona

Male below, female above
Photo by sungrebe
Photographed: Bocatoma, near Rio Frio, Tamaulipas, Mexico

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Taxonomy

Consists of four subspecies.

[edit] Subspecies¹

• 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

[edit] Habitat

Humid montane forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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