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Scarlet-browed Tanager

Heterospingus xanthopygius

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestSmall · 39 g
Scarlet-browed Tanager (Heterospingus xanthopygius), photo 1
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Scarlet-browed Tanager (Heterospingus xanthopygius), photo 2
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Scarlet-browed Tanager (Heterospingus xanthopygius), photo 3
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Scarlet-browed Tanager (Heterospingus xanthopygius), photo 4
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0

What the Scarlet-browed Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Scarlet-browed Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Esmeraldas: 23 road km NNW Alto Tambo, 2 km N main road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Scarlet-browed Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Esmeraldas: 23 road km NNW Alto Tambo, 2 km N main road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Scarlet-browed Tanager

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

Where to see the Scarlet-browed Tanager

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 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.

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.

About the Scarlet-browed Tanager

The scarlet-browed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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

Easily confused with

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons) Sulphur-rumped TanagerHeterospingus rubrifronsThe sulphur-rumped tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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