Home › All birds › Bay-headed tanager

The Bay-headed tanager (Tangara gyrola) is a bird found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela. Forests and gardens from Costa Rica to Brazil. It eats fruit and insects and other small invertebrates. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.

🏡 Where the Bay-headed tanager lives

Forests and gardens from Costa Rica to Brazil.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🍎 Fruit70%
• 🐛 Insects & bugs30%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

Hear the Bay-headed tanager

Recorded by José María Loaiza B. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC842092. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Bay-headed tanager

Where does the Bay-headed tanager live?

The Bay-headed tanager lives in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela. Forests and gardens from Costa Rica to Brazil.

What does the Bay-headed tanager eat?

fruit (about 70%), insects and other small invertebrates (about 30%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Bay-headed tanager endangered?

There are plenty of these birds. Its IUCN Red List category is Least Concern.

More birds from South America

• Golden-crowned warbler
• Yellow-bellied seedeater
• Grey-breasted wood wren
• Hooded siskin
• Blue-headed parrot
• Chilean swallow

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.