Thlypopsis fulviceps
Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The fulvous-headed tanager (Thlypopsis fulviceps) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in the Venezuelan Coastal Range and far northern Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
The fulvous-headed tanager was formally described by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis as Thlypopsis fulviceps in 1851 based on specimens from "Caraccas [,Venezuela]". The specific epithet is derived from the Latin words meaning "tawny-headed".
The fulvous-headed tanager has four recognised subspecies. The population inhabiting the isolated Santa Marta Mountains in northern Colombia has not been definitively assigned to any subspecies, but is thought to be obscuriceps. Wikipedia →
Call0:15
Venezuela · 2007
© Andrew Spencer · XC12189 · CC BY-NC-ND 2.5
| # | 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 |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Fulvous-headed Tanager sighting in Henri Pittier National Park on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 222nd most-seen of the 358 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Fulvous-headed Tanager in Henri Pittier National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March and July–January, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Fulvous-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 Fulvous-headed Tanager sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the Fulvous-headed Tanager that you can see in Henri Pittier National Park (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Blue-gray Tanager (about 70%), Bay-headed Tanager (about 50%) and Palm Tanager (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Fulvous-headed Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Henri Pittier National Park (18 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.
