Green-and-gold Tanager

Green-and-gold Tanager

Tangara schrankii

Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve

In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%

35 Verified sightings at Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve From 2019 to 2026
1,801 In all 7 parks
September Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Green-and-gold Tanager

The green-and-gold tanager (Tangara schrankii) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is one of 27 species in the genus Tangara. It is found in the western and central Amazon Basin in eastern Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, central Bolivia, and northwestern Brazil.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. The green-and-gold tanager's range is almost all of the western Amazon basin to the higher elevation mountain foothills of the eastern Andes. The contiguous range has three extensions. A southerly extension from southern Peru into central Bolivia is about 2000 km long and 400 km wide, and in Bolivia covers the upper reaches of tributary rivers to the northeast flowing Madeira River. A 1300 km range extension goes north to the southeastern Venezuela higher elevation border region, from the Rio Negro of the Amazon, beyond the upper reaches of Venezuela's Caribbean north-flowing Orinoco River. The third easterly extension goes in the central basin and ends at only the middle reaches of the northerly flowing Tapajós River, a stretch of 800 km of the 3000 km long river.

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Sounds

Call0:21

Brazil · 2026

© JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA · XC1183679 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Song0:41

Ecuador · 1995

© John V. Moore · XC259642 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dawn song0:14

Ecuador · 2011

© Andrew Spencer · XC86318 · CC BY-NC-ND 2.5

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Podocarpus National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador
~30%
2 Yasuní National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador
~20%
3 Tambopata National Reserve 🇵🇪 Peru
~10%
4 Amacayacu National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
~10%
5 Manu National Park 🇵🇪 Peru
~10%
6 Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve 🇪🇨 Ecuador
~10%
7 Amboró National Park 🇧🇴 Bolivia
<5%

Zoos & Centres Where Found

# Zoo / Centre Country
1 National Aquarium 🇺🇸 United States In captivity

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Green-and-gold Tanager in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Green-and-gold Tanager sighting in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve on a given day, based on 35 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 142nd most-seen of the 328 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.

When is the best time to see a Green-and-gold Tanager in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve?

September

In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Green-and-gold Tanager in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in February, April–May, July–August and November–December, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Green-and-gold Tanager?

Between 10 am and 1 pm

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green-and-gold 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.

Is Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve the best place to see a Green-and-gold Tanager?

6th of 7

Of the 7 parks where we can rate Green-and-gold Tanager sightings, Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve ranks 6th at about 10%. The best odds are in Podocarpus National Park (Ecuador, about 30%), Yasuní National Park (Ecuador, about 20%) and Tambopata National Reserve (Peru, about 10%).

Where does the Green-and-gold Tanager sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Green-and-gold Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (35 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.

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