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Dacnis cayana · Family Thraupidae
Dacnis cayana
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 245,827
- Countries and territories with records
- 24
About this species
This species has 245,827 occurrence records from 24 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (45.7%), Panama (13.6%), Costa Rica (11.3%), Colombia (10.7%) and Peru (5.3%); together they account for 86.6% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 0.47% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dacnis cayana combines the genus name Dacnis with the species epithet cayana. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Dacnis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dacnis venusta, Dacnis lineata and Dacnis flaviventer.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 19th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 4.7 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.