Black-hooded Tanager

Stilpnia whitelyi

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernForest

When to see the Black-hooded 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-hooded Tanager

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 23 countries with regular records, and 10 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 United States, Denmark, Canada, Germany, Trinidad & Tobago, France, United Kingdom, India, St. Lucia, Sweden.

About the Black-hooded Tanager

The black-hooded tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in southern Venezuela, Guyana and northern Brazil. 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 as a subspecies of the black-headed tanager.

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