Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestSmall · 38 g

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Aitor, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Sara Navarro, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Sara Navarro, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 6 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Aitor, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 8 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Sulphur-rumped Tanager (Heterospingus rubrifrons), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Roger A. Morales-Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Sulphur-rumped Tanager

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

Where to see the Sulphur-rumped Tanager

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 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.

Panama Costa Rica

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

About the Sulphur-rumped Tanager

The sulphur-rumped tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Easily confused with

Scarlet-browed TanagerHeterospingus xanthopygiusThe scarlet-browed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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