Black-headed Tanager

When to see the Black-headed Tanager

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

Where to see the Black-headed Tanager

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Brazil.

About the Black-headed Tanager

The black-headed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in the Andes of northeastern Colombia and the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. The black-hooded tanager was formerly considered to be conspecific with this species.

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Easily confused with

Masked TanagerStilpnia nigrocinctaThe masked tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Chestnut-backed TanagerStilpnia preciosaThe chestnut-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Silver-backed TanagerStilpnia viridicollisThe silver-backed tanager, also known as the silvery tanager, is a species of bird in the tanager family.