Thraupis sayaca
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The sayaca tanager (Thraupis sayaca) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is a common resident in northeastern, central, and southeastern Brazil (Portuguese: sanhaço [sɐ̃ˈɲasu] or sanhaçu [sɐ̃ɲaˈsu]), and Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina (where they are known as celestinos or celestinas). A few are recorded from far southeastern Peru, but its status there is unclear, in part due to the potential of confusion with the very similar juveniles of the blue-grey tanager.
It occurs in a wide range of open to semiopen habitats, but generally avoids the interior of dense forest (such as the Amazon). This tanager visits farmland in search of orchards and adapts readily to urban environment, as long as some arboreal cover and a supply of fruits are available. It feeds on flowers, buds, and insects, and this omnivorous lifestyle has helped it to become perhaps the most — or one of the most — common urban birds in southeastern Brazil, along with the rufous-bellied thrush.
The sayaca tanager was formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Tanagra... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Tijuca National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 10 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 11 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 12 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 14 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 5 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 9 | João Pessoa | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bioparque Municipal Vesty Pakos | 🇧🇴 Bolivia |
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report a Sayaca Tanager sighting in Serra da Canastra National Park on a given day, based on 331 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 10th most-seen of the 294 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Sayaca Tanager in Serra da Canastra National Park on a given day, against about 30% in December, the lowest month.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sayaca 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.
7th of 14
Of the 14 parks where we can rate Sayaca Tanager sightings, Serra da Canastra National Park ranks 7th at about 60%. The best odds are in El Palmar National Park (Argentina, about 70%), Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (Brazil, about 60%) and Tijuca National Park (Brazil, about 60%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sayaca Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Serra da Canastra National Park (331 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.
