Ramphocelus flammigerus
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
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 | Utría National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | San Lorenzo Protected Forest | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 4 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 5 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 6 | Darién National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 7 | Los Nevados National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 8 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 9 | Bastimentos Island National Marine Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 10 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aviario Nacional de Colombia | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Dallas World Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Flame-rumped Tanager sighting in Soberanía National Park on a given day, based on 1,204 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 165th most-seen of the 449 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Flame-rumped Tanager in Soberanía National Park on a given day, against about 10% in February to December, the lowest months. That is one of Soberanía National Park's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 350 mm in November.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Flame-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.
4th of 10
Of the 10 parks where we can rate Flame-rumped Tanager sightings, Soberanía National Park ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (Colombia, about 70%), Utría National Natural Park (Colombia, about 50%) and San Lorenzo Protected Forest (Panama, about 20%).
Same genus: Ramphocelus
The closest relatives of the Flame-rumped Tanager that you can see in Soberanía National Park (genus Ramphocelus, Silver-billed Tanagers) are Crimson-backed Tanager (about 50%) and Lemon-rumped Tanager (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Flame-rumped Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Soberanía National Park (1,204 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.
