Lanio fulvus
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In 3 days ~10%
The fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The fulvous shrike-tanager was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, the then-current name for French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored 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 fulva in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. In 1816 the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot erected the genus Lanio with the fulvous shrike-tanager as the type species. The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that had been introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 2 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 4 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Fulvous Shrike-Tanager sighting in Yasuní National Park on a given day, based on 55 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 368th most-seen of the 533 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Fulvous Shrike-Tanager in Yasuní National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April to February, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Fulvous Shrike-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.
3rd of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Fulvous Shrike-Tanager sightings, Yasuní National Park ranks 3rd at under 5%. The best odds are in Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname, about 20%) and Amacayacu National Natural Park (Colombia, under 5%).
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the Fulvous Shrike-Tanager that you can see in Yasuní National Park (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Blue-gray Tanager (about 40%), Palm Tanager (about 40%) and Red-capped Cardinal (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Fulvous Shrike-Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Yasuní National Park (55 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.
