Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ShrublandCup nestSmall · 33 g

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 1 — Photo: Vincent A. Vos · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 2 — Photo: Vincent A. Vos · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 3 — Photo: Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 4 — Photo: Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 6 — Photo: Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 7 — Photo: Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Donald Davesne, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Black-faced Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Black-faced Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: SE Zumba: turnoff to Chito on La Chonta - El Chorro road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Black-faced Tanager

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-faced Tanager

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 9 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Brazil Peru Venezuela Bolivia Ecuador Suriname French Guiana Guyana

Recorded as a rare visitor in Argentina, Panama.

About the Black-faced Tanager

The black-faced tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Cinnamon TanagerSchistochlamys ruficapillusThe cinnamon tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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