White-winged Tanager
Piranga leucoptera
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyCardinalidae (Cardinàlids)
- GenusPiranga (Piranga Tanagers)
- SpeciesPiranga leucoptera (White-winged Tanager)
The white-winged tanager (Piranga leucoptera) is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks. It is found from Mexico, through Central America, across northern South America and as far south as Bolivia. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
Summer Tanager
Piranga rubra
Flame-colored Tanager
Piranga bidentata
Western Tanager
Piranga ludoviciana
Hepatic Tanager
Piranga flava
Scarlet Tanager
Piranga olivacea
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
Black-faced Grosbeak
Caryothraustes poliogaster
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
Habia rubica
Black-thighed Grosbeak
Pheucticus tibialis
Indigo Bunting
Passerina cyanea
Blue Grosbeak
Passerina caerulea
Blue-black Grosbeak
Cyanocompsa cyanoides
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of White-winged Tanager at Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there