Magpie Tanager

What the Magpie Tanager sounds like

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Mariposa, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Magpie 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 Magpie Tanager

The map shades 9 countries with regular records, and 2 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, Suriname.

About the Magpie Tanager

The magpie tanager is a South American species of tanager. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Cissopis. As suggested by its common name, this blue-black and white species is superficially reminiscent of a European magpie. With a total length of 25–30 cm (9.8–11.8 in), a large percentage of which is tail, it is the longest species of tanager. It weighs 69–76 g (2.4–2.7 oz).

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Easily confused with

Black FlowerpiercerDiglossa humeralisAdult black flowerpiercers are 13–14 cm in length. Scarlet-bellied Mountain TanagerAnisognathus igniventrisThe scarlet-bellied mountain tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Purple HoneycreeperCyanerpes caeruleusThe purple honeycreeper is 4.5 in (11.5 cm) long, weighs 0.42 oz (12 g), and has a long black decurved bill.