White-shouldered Tanager
Loriotus luctuosus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyThraupidae (Tanagers and Allies)
- GenusLoriotus
- SpeciesLoriotus luctuosus (White-shouldered Tanager)
The white-shouldered tanager (Loriotus luctuosus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found from Honduras to Panama, on Trinidad, and in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Tortuguero National Park
Blue-gray Tanager
Thraupis episcopus
Variable Seedeater
Sporophila corvina
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarum
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Ramphocelus passerinii
Golden-hooded Tanager
Stilpnia larvata
Buff-throated Saltator
Saltator maximus
Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Sporophila funerea
Yellow-winged Tanager
Thraupis abbas
Bananaquit
Coereba flaveola
Cinnamon-bellied Saltator
Saltator grandis
Blue-black Grassquit
Volatinia jacarina
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Cyanerpes cyaneus
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of White-shouldered Tanager at Tortuguero 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