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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 being subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The flame-faced tanager 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 T. p. lunigera lacks the deep red on the face, which is replaced with orangish-red. It is an omnivorous bird, feeding on fruit and arthropods found mostly on mossy branches. It breeds in the rainy season with eggs laid in clutches of two and fledglings fed by both parents. Although it is listed as a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it is facing population decline due to habitat destruction. This flame-faced tanager of the subspecies T. p. parzudakii was photographed perching on a branch in the Parque Verde y Agua in Colombia's Cundinamarca Department.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp