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Silver-beaked Tanager

Ramphocelus carbo

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast 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: Carlos Eduardo Joos · CC BY 4.0
Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 5
Photo: Charles Patrick Ewing · CC BY 2.0
Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), photo 6
Photo: Siddarth Machado · 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

What the Silver-beaked Tanager sounds like

Sonogram of the Silver-beaked Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pastaza: Canelos, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Silver-beaked Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Silver-beaked Tanager: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pastaza: chacra 7 km N Canelos, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Silver-beaked 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 Silver-beaked Tanager

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 11 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.

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

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Argentina.

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.

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

Easily confused with

Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus) Crimson-backed TanagerRamphocelus dimidiatusThe crimson-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) Flame-rumped TanagerRamphocelus flammigerusThe flame-rumped tanager measures on average 19 cm (7.5 in) in length. Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) Scarlet-rumped TanagerRamphocelus passeriniiThe adult Scarlet-rumped tanager is 16 cm long and weighs 31 g.

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