What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Summer Tanager been recorded?

Piranga rubra occurrence evidence comes from 8,674 records in 20 countries and territories, from 1861 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesCardinalidaePiranga

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

8,674 records across 20 countries and territories, 1861–2026.

Piranga rubra · GBIF taxon key 2488485

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Summer Tanager has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Summer Tanager. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 5,658
Colombia 2,106
Mexico 533
Costa Rica 88
Canada 55
Panama 48
Ecuador 32
Honduras 30
El Salvador 24
Venezuela 21
Peru 19
Belize 15
Guatemala 15
Nicaragua 14
Guyana 6
Brazil 3
French Guiana 2
Suriname 2
Cuba 1
France 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.