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 Henri Pittier National Park on a given day, based on 30 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 174th most-seen of the 358 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.
December
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-headed Tanager in Henri Pittier National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, March, May, July–August and November, 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 Henri Pittier National Park, in our data
Henri Pittier National Park is the only park 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.
Same genus: Stilpnia
The closest relatives of the Black-headed Tanager that you can see in Henri Pittier National Park (genus Stilpnia, Stilpnia Tanagers) are Blue-necked Tanager (about 20%) and Burnished-buff Tanager (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-headed Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Henri Pittier National Park (30 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.
