Tityra cayana
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The black-tailed tityra (Tityra cayana) is a medium-sized passerine bird of tropical South America. The tityras have been placed in the cotinga or the tyrant flycatcher families (Cotingidae and Tyrannidae) by various authors. But the weight of evidence strongly suggest they and their closest relatives are better separated as Tityridae; the AOU for example advocates this separation.
In 1760, the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the black-tailed tityra in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Cayenne in French Guiana. He used the French name La pie-griesche gris de Cayenne and the Latin name Lanius Cayanensis cinereus. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition in 1766, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the black-tailed tityra. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Lanius cayanus and cited Brisson's work. The species is now placed in the genus... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 5 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 10 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 11 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 12 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 14 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 15 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 16 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 17 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 18 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Black-tailed Tityra sighting in Anavilhanas National Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 171st most-seen of the 291 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.
September
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-tailed Tityra in Anavilhanas National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–May, July–August and October–December, the lowest months. That is one of Anavilhanas National Park's driest months, with about 90 mm of rain against 340 mm in March.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-tailed Tityra sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
8th of 18
Of the 18 parks where we can rate Black-tailed Tityra sightings, Anavilhanas National Park ranks 8th at under 5%. The best odds are in Yasuní National Park (Ecuador, about 20%), Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (Ecuador, about 20%) and Amacayacu National Natural Park (Colombia, about 10%).
Same family: Cotingidae
The closest relatives of the Black-tailed Tityra that you can see in Anavilhanas National Park (family Cotingidae, Cotingas) are Screaming Piha (about 20%), Várzea Schiffornis (about 20%) and Bare-necked Fruitcrow (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-tailed Tityra is recorded against all the birds logged in Anavilhanas National Park (19 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.
