Tityra cayana
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
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 Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 190th most-seen of the 273 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-tailed Tityra in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–August and October–January, the lowest months. That is one of Chapada dos Guimarães National Park's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 240 mm in March. February to April have too few records to rate.
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.
15th of 18
Of the 18 parks where we can rate Black-tailed Tityra sightings, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park ranks 15th 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%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-tailed Tityra is recorded against all the birds logged in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (18 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.
