The Flame-crested Tanager is found throughout most of the Amazon Basin, south Venezuela and the Guianas with a second, disjunct population in eastern Brazil.

It inhabits forest, forest borders and clearings where it usually forages in the canopy or mid-storey. It eats insects, fruit, berries and seeds.

You can usually see some white at the shoulder and this shows as white under-wings in flight. The rump is buff as is the throat although this might not be very noticeable in some lights and some sub-species have smaller throat patches.

There are recordings on xeno-canto, a distribution map from NatureServe and additional information available via Avibase. There is a page in Portuguese on Wikiaves.