Lanio fulvus
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The fulvous shrike-tanager was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, the then-current name for French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Tangara fulva in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. In 1816 the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot erected the genus Lanio with the fulvous shrike-tanager as the type species. The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that had been introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 2 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 4 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Fulvous Shrike-Tanager sighting in Amacayacu National Natural Park on a given day, based on 31 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 259th most-seen of the 436 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, June and September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Fulvous Shrike-Tanager in Amacayacu National Natural Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–May, July–August and October–December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Fulvous Shrike-Tanager sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Fulvous Shrike-Tanager sightings, Amacayacu National Natural Park ranks 2nd at under 5%. The best odds are in Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname, about 20%).
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the Fulvous Shrike-Tanager that you can see in Amacayacu National Natural Park (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Silver-beaked Tanager (about 50%), Blue-gray Tanager (about 30%) and Palm Tanager (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Fulvous Shrike-Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Amacayacu National Natural Park (31 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
