Common Bush-Tanager
Chlorospingus flavopectus
Also known as: Common Chlorospingus, Common Tanager Finch, Yellow-Breasted Bush-Tanager
About This Species
A dull olive-grey songbird best located by ear in the understorey and mid-story of Neotropical montane forests, where it often travels in noisy mixed-species foraging flocks with tanagers and warblers. Look for constant, restless movement through tangled foliage and listen for a thin, high-pitched chip note used to keep the flock in contact. Cool, misty mid-elevation forest in the early morning is the most productive setting to find one.
Ethical Viewing Guidelines
- Stand still and let a passing mixed flock come to you rather than pushing into the undergrowth after it, which scatters the whole group and reduces everyone's viewing chances.
- Protections for native forest birds vary by country across its Central and South American range, so avoid assuming local rules mirror those elsewhere.
- A quiet, stationary approach along an existing trail is both the most effective and least disruptive way to watch this species.
LCAvesPasseriformesPasserellidae
Seasonal Activity
194,760 sightings · 2000–2026
Citizen science records via GBIF
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
Photo
(c) Ad Konings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ad Konings
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Occurrence data from GBIF.