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title: "Goldscheiteltangare"
description: "Stilpnia larvata — Vögel. The golden-hooded tanager (Stilpnia larvata) is a medium-sized passerine bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/golden-hooded-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Goldscheiteltangare

> Stilpnia larvata — Vögel. The golden-hooded tanager (Stilpnia larvata) is a medium-sized passerine bird.

- Scientific name: *Stilpnia larvata*
- Category: `birds` (Vögel)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald)
- iNaturalist observations: 4465
- iNaturalist taxon: [979973](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/979973)

## Names

- en: Golden-hooded Tanager
- de: Goldscheiteltangare
- es: Tangara Capucha Dorada
- fr: Calliste à coiffe d’or

## Countries with the most observations

CR (2719), PA (730), CO (290), MX (126), HN (111), BZ (105), NI (88), EC (54), GT (12)

## Summary

The golden-hooded tanager (Stilpnia larvata) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder from southern Mexico south to western Ecuador.
Adult golden-hooded tanagers are 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weigh 19 g (0.67 oz). The adult male has a golden head with a black eyemask edged with violet blue above and below. The upperparts of the body are black apart from the turquoise shoulders, rump and edgings of the wings and tail. The flanks are blue and the central belly is white. Females have a greenish tinge to the head, sometimes with black speckling on the crown, and more extensively white underparts…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-hooded_tanager

## Photo

![Goldscheiteltangare](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/golden-hooded-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: andrew2285 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/336158351

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/golden-hooded-tanager?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).