Ramphocelus icteronotus
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The flame-rumped tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) is a passerine bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found from Panama to Peru. Its two subspecies have at times been treated as full species. The flame-rumped tanager was formally described in 1833 by the English naturalists William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby based on a specimen collected on "some part of the district upon the Columbia River". They assigned the binomial name Ramphopis flamigerus, whose specific epithet is a misspelling of the Latin word flammigerus meaning "flame-bearing" or "fiery". It is now one of eight species in the genus Ramphocelus that was introduced in 1805 by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest.
BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World lumped the two taxa in 2024. The Clements... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farallones de Cali National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lemon-rumped Tanager sighting in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 67th most-seen of the 542 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and August
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Lemon-rumped Tanager in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park on a given day, against under 5% in July and September–December, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lemon-rumped 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 2 parks where we can rate Lemon-rumped Tanager sightings, Farallones de Cali National Natural Park has the highest daily chance: about 20%. Next come Soberanía National Park (Panama, about 20%).
Same genus: Ramphocelus
The closest relatives of the Lemon-rumped Tanager that you can see in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (genus Ramphocelus, Silver-billed Tanagers) are Flame-rumped Tanager (about 70%) and Crimson-backed Tanager (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lemon-rumped Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (17 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.
