Tachyphonus rufus
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The white-lined tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is a resident breeder from Costa Rica south to northern Argentina and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
The white-lined tanager was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from specimens collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The female bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Tangara rufa in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The white-lined tanager is now placed in the genus Tachyphonus and was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the white-lined tanager as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek words takhus "fast" and phōneō "to speak". The specific rufus is Latin for "red", "ruddy... Wikipedia →
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bioparque Wakatá | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Universeum | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-lined Tanager sighting in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge on a given day, based on 85 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 158th most-seen of the 329 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and April–August
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-lined Tanager in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge on a given day, against under 5% in March and September–January, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-lined 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.
13th of 38
Of the 38 parks where we can rate White-lined Tanager sightings, Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge ranks 13th at about 10%. The best odds are in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (Colombia, about 70%), Main Ridge Forest Reserve (Trinidad and Tobago, about 50%) and Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (Brazil, about 50%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-lined Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge (85 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.
