Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) | Photos, Calls and ID

Least ConcernInvertebratesUrbanCup nestSmall · 26 g

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 1 — Photo: Arthur Chapman · CC BY 2.0

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 2 — Photo: in Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny · Public domain

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 3 — Photo: William Swainson (1789-1855) · Public domain

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 4 — Photo: Charles Patrick Ewing · CC BY 2.0

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 5 — Photo: Siddarth Machado · CC BY 4.0

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 6 — Photo: Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 7 — Photo: Esteban Poveda · CC BY 4.0

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 8 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Esteban Poveda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Esteban Poveda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

About the Silver-beaked Tanager

The silver-beaked tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder in South America from eastern Colombia and Venezuela south to Paraguay and central Brazil, Peru and on Trinidad. It is common and conspicuous.

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What the Silver-beaked Tanager sounds like

Recording: Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Where the Silver-beaked Tanager lives

Regular rangeRare visitor

Colombia Brazil Peru Ecuador Venezuela Trinidad & Tobago Bolivia Guyana French Guiana Suriname Paraguay

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Argentina.

When to see the Silver-beaked Tanager

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Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range

Easily confused with

Crimson-backed TanagerRamphocelus dimidiatusThe crimson-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Flame-rumped TanagerRamphocelus flammigerusThe flame-rumped tanager measures on average 19 cm (7.5 in) in length.

Scarlet-rumped TanagerRamphocelus passeriniiThe adult Scarlet-rumped tanager is 16 cm long and weighs 31 g.

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