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Passerini's Tanager

Ramphocelus passerinii · Family Thraupidae

Ramphocelus passerinii

Family Thraupidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
GBIF occurrence records
340,299
Countries and territories with records
12
Passerini's Tanager
Benjamin Keen · Passerinis tanager female.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Benjamin Keen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Oliver Komar · Ramphocelus_passerinii_-_Scarlet-rumped_Tanager_XC529201.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oliver Komar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 340,299 occurrence records from 12 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (87.8%), Panama (5.5%), Belize (2.1%), Nicaragua (2.1%) and Honduras (1.2%); together they account for 98.7% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.

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

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 6.5 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Thraupidae

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