Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Monics Paredes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta), photo 8 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Masked Tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Masked Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Masked Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Río Bombuscaro, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Masked 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 Masked Tanager

Regular range

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

Colombia Ecuador Peru Brazil Bolivia Venezuela

About the Masked Tanager

The masked tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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

Easily confused with

Black-headed TanagerStilpnia cyanopteraThe black-headed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Chestnut-backed TanagerStilpnia preciosaThe chestnut-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Silver-backed TanagerStilpnia viridicollisThe silver-backed tanager, also known as the silvery tanager, is a species of bird in the tanager family.

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