Tachyphonus rufus
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The white-lined tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is a resident breeder from Costa Rica south to northern Argentina and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
The white-lined tanager was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from specimens collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The female bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Tangara rufa in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The white-lined tanager is now placed in the genus Tachyphonus and was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the white-lined tanager as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek words takhus "fast" and phōneō "to speak". The specific rufus is Latin for "red", "ruddy... Wikipedia →
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
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| 1 | Bioparque Wakatá | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Universeum | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White-lined Tanager sighting in Brasilia on a given day, based on 36 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 71st most-seen of the 141 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.
October and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-lined Tanager in Brasilia on a given day, against under 5% in December to September, the lowest months. Those are among Brasilia's wettest months, with about 160 mm of rain a month against almost none in July.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-lined 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.
5th of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate White-lined Tanager sightings, Brasilia ranks 5th at under 5%. The best odds are in Valencia (Venezuela, about 20%), Caracas (Venezuela, about 10%) and Cali (Colombia, about 10%).
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the White-lined Tanager that you can see in Brasilia (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Saffron Finch (about 80%), Bananaquit (about 50%) and Sayaca Tanager (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-lined Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Brasilia (36 verified sightings), 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.
