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Blue-capped Tanager

Sporathraupis cyanocephala

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestCup nestSmall · 36 g
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 1
Photo: Alina Martin · CC BY 4.0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 2
Photo: Alina Martin · CC BY 4.0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 3
Photo: Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 4
Photo: Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 5
Photo: russnamitz · CC0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 6
Photo: russnamitz · CC0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 7
Photo: Allan Harris · CC0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 8
Photo: Thraupis_cyanocephala_olivicyanea_1.jpg: Cristóbal Alvarado Minic from Cagua, Venezuela derivative work: Berichard (talk) · CC BY 2.0
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 9
Photo: in Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny · Public domain
Blue-capped Tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala), photo 10
Photo: Cristóbal Alvarado Minic from Cagua, Venezuela · CC BY 2.0

What the Blue-capped Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Blue-capped Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Blue-capped Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Blue-capped Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Blue-capped Tanager

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

Where to see the Blue-capped Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Peru Ecuador Venezuela Bolivia Trinidad & Tobago

About the Blue-capped Tanager

The blue-capped tanager is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Thraupis but is now the only species in the genus Sporathraupis.

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

Easily confused with

Black-winged Saltator (Saltator atripennis) Black-winged SaltatorSaltator atripennisThe black-winged saltator is a species of songbird found in Colombia and Ecuador. Plain-colored Tanager (Tangara inornata) Plain-colored TanagerTangara inornataThe plain-colored tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea) Thick-billed Seed FinchSporophila funereaThe thick-billed seed finch is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, but was until recently placed in Emberizidae.

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