Stilpnia cyanoptera
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The black-headed tanager (Stilpnia cyanoptera) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in the Andes of northeastern Colombia and the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. The black-hooded tanager (Stilpnia whitelyi) was formerly considered to be conspecific with this species.
The black-headed tanager was illustrated in 1834 by the English zoologist William Swainson under the binomial name Aglaia cyanoptera. The specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek κυανοπτερος/kuanopteros meaning "blue-winged" or "dark-winged" from κυανος/kuanos meaning "dark-blue" and -πτερος/-pteros meaning "-winged". Swainson did not give a locality but in 1936 Carl Eduard Hellmayr suggested Caracas in Venezuela. The black-headed tanager is now one of 15 species placed in the genus Stilpnia that was introduced in 2016. The black-hooded tanager (Stilpnia whitelyi) was formerly considered as a subspecies.
When this species is placed in the same genus as the azure-shouldered tanager then under the rules of the International Code of Zoological... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-headed Tanager sighting in Caracas on a given day, based on 595 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 82nd most-seen of the 295 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–August and November–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-headed Tanager in Caracas on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and September–October, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-headed Tanager sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Caracas, in our data
Caracas is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-headed Tanager sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-headed Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Caracas (595 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.
