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 Poás Volcano National Park
Flame-colored Tanager
Piranga bidentata
Summer Tanager
Piranga rubra
Hepatic Tanager
Piranga flava
Black-thighed Grosbeak
Pheucticus tibialis
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
Blue-black Grosbeak
Cyanocompsa cyanoides
Indigo Bunting
Passerina cyanea
Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager
Chlorospingus pileatus
Slaty Flowerpiercer
Diglossa plumbea
Mountain Elaenia
Elaenia frantzii
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
Henicorhina leucophrys
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Zonotrichia capensis
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of White-winged Tanager at Poás Volcano National Park — 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