Piranga flava
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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 |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Red Tanager sighting in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 263rd most-seen of the 273 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red Tanager in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June to 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 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.
24th of 30
Of the 30 parks where we can rate Red Tanager sightings, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park ranks 24th at under 5%. The best odds are in Chagres National Park (Panama, about 60%), El Palmar National Park (Argentina, about 40%) and Arenal Volcano National Park (Costa Rica, about 30%). All parks ranked.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Red Tanager that you can see in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Chopí Blackbird (about 70%), Great Kiskadee (about 70%) and Rufous Hornero (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (5 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.
