Piranga flava
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
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 |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red Tanager sighting in Buenos Aires on a given day, based on 1,300 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 103rd most-seen of the 274 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May to August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red Tanager in Buenos Aires on a given day, against under 5% in October to March, 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.
Yes
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Red Tanager sightings, Buenos Aires has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come Cochabamba (Bolivia, under 5%) and Cordoba (Argentina, under 5%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Buenos Aires (1,300 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.
