Chlorothraupis carmioli
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Carmiol's tanager (Chlorothraupis carmioli) is a species of bird in the cardinal family Cardinalidae that is found in Central America from Nicaragua southwards to northwest Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. It was formerly considered as conspecific with the yellow-lored tanager.
Carmiol's tanager was formally described in 1868 by the American ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence from a specimen collected in Costa Rica. He coined the binomial name Phoenicothraupis carmioli. Carmiol's tanager is now one of four species placed in the genus Chlorothraupis that was introduced in 1863 by Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman. The common name and the specific epithet commemorate Franz Carmiol, the son of a German immigrant to Nicaragua, who had collected the specimen for the Smithsonian Institution. The genus was at one time placed in the tanager family Thraupidae but was moved to the cardinal family Cardinalidae based on molecular evidence. Carmiol's tanager was formerly treated as conspecific with the yellow-lored tanager (Chlorothraupis frenata).
Three subspecies are recognised: C. c... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 2 | Tenorio Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 3 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Rincón de la Vieja National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 7 | Poás Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 9 | Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 10 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Carmiol's Tanager sighting in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, based on 3,755 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 59th most-seen of the 503 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–March and September
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Carmiol's Tanager in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, against about 20% in April–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 Carmiol's 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.
3rd of 10
Of the 10 parks where we can rate Carmiol's Tanager sightings, Arenal Volcano National Park ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Chagres National Park (Panama, about 40%) and Tenorio Volcano National Park (Costa Rica, about 40%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Cardinalidae
The closest relatives of the Carmiol's Tanager that you can see in Arenal Volcano National Park (family Cardinalidae, Cardinals and Allies) are Summer Tanager (about 40%), Red Tanager (about 30%) and Blue-black Grosbeak (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Carmiol's Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Arenal Volcano National Park (3,755 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.
