Warbla

Warbla · Library

Blue-grey Tanager

Thraupis episcopus · Family Thraupidae

Thraupis episcopus

Family Thraupidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,462,978
Countries and territories with records
24
Blue-grey Tanager
Charlie Jackson · Blue-grey Tanager (49553746996).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Charlie Jackson · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Thraupis_episcopus_-_Blue-grey_Tanager_XC243187.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · 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 1,462,978 occurrence records from 24 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (27.1%), Costa Rica (25%), Panama (9.7%), Ecuador (9.1%) and Venezuela (7.4%); together they account for 78.4% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Thraupis episcopus combines the genus name Thraupis with the species epithet episcopus. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Thraupis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Thraupis palmarum, Thraupis sayaca and Thraupis abbas.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 28.2 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

Credits & data sources