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Silver-beaked Tanager

Ramphocelus carbo · Family Thraupidae

Ramphocelus carbo

Family Thraupidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
GBIF occurrence records
258,445
Countries and territories with records
19
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About this species

This species has 258,445 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (23.6%), Brazil (23.4%), Peru (18.8%), Ecuador (13.7%) and Venezuela (7%); together they account for 86.4% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Ramphocelus carbo combines the genus name Ramphocelus with the species epithet carbo. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Ramphocelus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ramphocelus passerinii, Ramphocelus dimidiatus and Ramphocelus flammigerus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 5 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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