Speckled Tanager

When to see the Speckled Tanager

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

Where to see the Speckled Tanager

The map shades 8 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 Brazil, French Guiana.

About the Speckled Tanager

The speckled tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. It is a resident breeder in Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname and the north of Brazil. There are also sight records from French Guiana.

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Easily confused with

Rufous-throated TanagerIxothraupis rufigulaThe rufous-throated tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Spotted TanagerIxothraupis punctataThe spotted tanager has green upperparts, white underparts and face with a bluish-gray wash, black lores, and greenish-yellow flanks. Yellow-bellied TanagerIxothraupis xanthogastraThe yellow-bellied tanager is, on average, it is 11–12.2 cm (4.3–4.8 in) long and weighs 14.1–17.9 g (0.5–0.6 oz).