Tachyphonus rufus
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bioparque Wakatá | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Universeum | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-lined Tanager sighting in Natal on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 50 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.
July
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a White-lined Tanager in Natal on a given day, against under 5% in March–April and September–November, the lowest months. That is one of Natal's wettest months, with about 150 mm of rain against 15 mm in November. January–February and June have too few records to rate.
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.
4th of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate White-lined Tanager sightings, Natal ranks 4th at about 10%. 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 Natal (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Bananaquit (about 70%), Palm Tanager (about 70%) and Sayaca Tanager (about 60%), 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 Natal (6 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.
