Piranga flava
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The red tanager (Piranga flava) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae. There four subspecies of Piranga flava: Piranga flava macconnelli C. Chubb, 1921 (southern Guyana, southern Suriname and northern Brazil)
Piranga flava rosacea Todd, 1922 (eastern Bolivia) Piranga flava saira (von Spix, 1825) (eastern and southern Brazil) Piranga flava flava (Vieillot, 1822) (southeastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay)
The red tanager is sometimes treated as part of a more broadly circumscribed hepatic tanager species, where it makes up the flava subspecies group (lowland hepatic tanager). However, the IOC World Bird List splits these birds into three species, also recognising Piranga hepatica (the hepatic tanager) and Piranga lutea (the tooth-billed tanager). Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Cochabamba | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 3 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 5 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 6 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 8 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red Tanager sighting in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, based on 3,984 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 53rd 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.
February–May and July
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red Tanager in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, against about 20% in June and August–January, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red 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 30
Of the 30 parks where we can rate Red Tanager sightings, Arenal Volcano National Park ranks 3rd at about 30%. The best odds are in Chagres National Park (Panama, about 60%) and El Palmar National Park (Argentina, about 40%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Arenal Volcano National Park (3,984 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.
