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Sayaca Tanager
Thraupis sayaca · Family Thraupidae
Thraupis sayaca
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 480,678
- Countries and territories with records
- 13
About this species
This species has 480,678 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (71.1%), Argentina (19.9%), Paraguay (4.1%), Bolivia (3.1%) and Uruguay (1.8%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 1.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Thraupis sayaca combines the genus name Thraupis with the species epithet sayaca. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Thraupis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Thraupis episcopus, Thraupis palmarum and Thraupis abbas.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 9.3 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.