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White-shouldered Tanager

Loriotus luctuosus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 14 g
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 1
Photo: Anna Hess · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 2
Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 3
Photo: yongestation · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 4
Photo: yongestation · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 5
Photo: Guy Babineau · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 6
Photo: Navin Sasikumar · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 7
Photo: Navin Sasikumar · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 8
Photo: Alina Martin · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 9
Photo: Guy Babineau · CC BY 4.0
White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus), photo 10
Photo: Feroze Omardeen · CC BY 2.0

When to see the White-shouldered 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 White-shouldered Tanager

Regular range

The map shades 14 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Panama Costa Rica Colombia Ecuador Peru Brazil Trinidad & Tobago Venezuela Honduras Bolivia Guyana Nicaragua French Guiana Suriname

About the White-shouldered Tanager

The white-shouldered tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder from Honduras to Panama, South America south to Ecuador and southern Brazil, and on Trinidad.

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

Easily confused with

Flame-crested Tanager (Loriotus cristatus) Flame-crested TanagerLoriotus cristatusThe flame-crested tanager grows to a length of about 15 cm (6 in) and a weight of around 20 g (0.7 oz). Yellow-crested Tanager (Loriotus rufiventer) Yellow-crested TanagerLoriotus rufiventerThe yellow-crested tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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