Habia rubica
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~80%
The red-crowned ant tanager (Habia rubica) is a medium-sized passerine bird from tropical America. It is the only species now placed in the genus Habia. This species was long placed with the tanagers (Thraupidae), but it is actually closer to the cardinals (Cardinalidae).
The red-crowned ant tanager was formally described in 1817 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot. He placed it in the genus Saltator (which he misspelled as Staltator) and coined the binomial name Saltator rubicus. He specified the locality as Paraguay. The specific epithet is from Medieval Latin rubicus meaning "reddish". The red-crowned ant tanager is now the only species placed in the genus Habia that was introduced in 1840 by Edward Blyth. The genus name is a word used for various finches and tanagers in the Guarani language of Paraguay.
There are 17 recognised subspecies: H... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 2 | Santos | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-crowned Ant-Tanager sighting in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary on a given day, based on 250 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 92nd most-seen of the 277 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red-crowned Ant-Tanager in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary on a given day, against about 10% in January and May, the lowest months. That is one of Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary's wettest months, with about 300 mm of rain against 75 mm in April.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-crowned Ant-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.
6th of 32
Of the 32 parks where we can rate Red-crowned Ant-Tanager sightings, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary ranks 6th at about 20%. The best odds are in Iguaçu National Park (Brazil, about 30%), Serra dos Órgãos National Park (Brazil, about 20%) and Iguazú National Park (Argentina, about 20%).
Same family: Cardinalidae
The closest relatives of the Red-crowned Ant-Tanager that you can see in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (family Cardinalidae, Cardinals and Allies) are Summer Tanager (about 40%), Black-faced Grosbeak (about 30%) and Blue-black Grosbeak (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-crowned Ant-Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (250 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.
