Ramphocelus icteronotus
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
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 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lemon-rumped Tanager sighting in Soberanía National Park on a given day, based on 43 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 132nd most-seen of the 449 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Lemon-rumped Tanager in Soberanía National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May and August, the lowest months. That is one of Soberanía National Park's driest months, with about 120 mm of rain against 350 mm in November.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lemon-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.
Among the best
Of the 2 parks where we can rate Lemon-rumped Tanager sightings, Soberanía National Park ranks 2nd at about 20%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (Colombia, about 20%).
Same genus: Ramphocelus
The closest relatives of the Lemon-rumped Tanager that you can see in Soberanía National Park (genus Ramphocelus, Silver-billed Tanagers) are Crimson-backed Tanager (about 50%) and Flame-rumped Tanager (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lemon-rumped Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Soberanía National Park (43 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.
