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Guira Tanager

Hemithraupis guira

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 12 g
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 1
Photo: Conrado Pável de Oliveira · CC BY 4.0
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 2
Photo: Conrado Pável de Oliveira · CC BY 4.0
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 3
Photo: Frank Thomas Sautter · CC0
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 4
Photo: Lucas Mantelo Cruz · CC BY 4.0
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 5
Photo: Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes from Goiânia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 6
Photo: Catesby, Mark; Edwards, George · Public domain
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 7
Photo: (c) Zac Peterson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 8
Photo: (c) Pablo H Capovilla, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 9
Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Guira Tanager (Hemithraupis guira), photo 10
Photo: (c) GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Guira Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Guira Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Andres Felipe Espinosa · Song · Qawana Reserva Natural, Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Guira Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, song, calls · El Oro: Reserva Buenaventura 9 km WNW Piñas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Guira Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Andres Felipe Espinosa · Alarm call, song · Ibagué, Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The guira tanager is a small species measuring 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in) in length and weighing around 12 g (0.42 oz) on average. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males are more brightly colored, with olive-green upperparts separated from the black face and throat by a bright yellow margin. The greenish to grayish stomach is separated from the throat by the rufous-orange breast. The wing feathers are generally blackish with greenish edges. Females have entirely olive-green upperparts, greenish-yellow underparts, and a whitish stomach.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Guira 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 Guira Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 11 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Colombia Ecuador Argentina Venezuela Paraguay Bolivia Peru Guyana French Guiana Suriname

About the Guira Tanager

The guira tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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

Easily confused with

Rufous-headed Tanager (Hemithraupis ruficapilla) Rufous-headed TanagerHemithraupis ruficapillaThe rufous-headed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Yellow-backed Tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis) Yellow-backed TanagerHemithraupis flavicollisThe yellow-backed tanager is a relatively small tanager.

Side by side: Guira Tanager vs Yellow-backed Tanager

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