Grey-headed Tanager

Eucometis penicillata

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestSmall · 27 g

When to see the Grey-headed Tanager

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

Where to see the Grey-headed Tanager

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 15 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 French Guiana.

About the Grey-headed Tanager

The grey-headed tanager is a widely distributed species of small Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Eucometis.

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