About the Bay-headed Tanager
The bay-headed tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder in Costa Rica, Panama, South America south to Ecuador, Bolivia, and north-western Brazil, and on Trinidad.
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Adult bay-headed tanagers are 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weigh 19.5 g (0.69 oz). The nominate subspecies T. g. gyrola is mainly green apart from a chestnut head, a blue or green belly, and a thin gold collar on the hind neck. Sexes are similar, but immatures are duller with chestnut-flecked green heads. There is considerable plumage variation between the various subspecies, and T. g. viridissima of northeast Venezuela and Trinidad has green underparts concolorous with the rest of the body plumage. The bay-headed tanager's song is a slow seee, seee, seee, tsou, tsooy.
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What the Bay-headed Tanager sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in January · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Silver-throated TanagerTangara icterocephalaThe silver-throated tanager is an average-sized Tangara tanager, being 13 centimetres (5.1 in) long and weighing 22 grams (0.78 oz) on average.
Golden TanagerTangara arthusThe golden tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
Beryl-spangled TanagerTangara nigroviridisIt is a small songbird, measuring 13 cm (5.1 in) in length.
Side by side: Bay-headed Tanager vs Silver-throated Tanager
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