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Bay-headed Tanager
Tangara gyrola · Family Thraupidae
Tangara gyrola
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 247,938
- Countries and territories with records
- 19
About this species
This species has 247,938 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (42.6%), Costa Rica (24.7%), Ecuador (12.9%), Panama (8.6%) and Venezuela (4.3%); together they account for 93.2% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.39% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tangara gyrola combines the genus name Tangara with the species epithet gyrola. The Warbla app catalog lists 27 species of the genus Tangara; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tangara icterocephala, Tangara arthus and Tangara nigroviridis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 4.8 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.