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title: "Bay-headed Tanager"
description: "Tangara gyrola — Uccelli. The bay-headed tanager (Tangara gyrola) is a medium-sized passerine bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/bay-headed-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bay-headed Tanager

> Tangara gyrola — Uccelli. The bay-headed tanager (Tangara gyrola) is a medium-sized passerine bird.

- Scientific name: *Tangara gyrola*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 3776
- Wikidata: [Q2669329](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2669329)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9556](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9556)

## Names

- en: Bay-headed Tanager
- de: Rötelkopftangare
- es: Tángara Cabecirroja
- fr: Calliste rouverdin
- nl: Okerkaptangare
- pt: Saíra-de-cabeça-castanha
- pl: Tangarka rudogłowa

## Countries with the most observations

CO (1695), CR (771), PA (448), EC (375), VE (82), TT (66), PE (39), BR (35), BO (16), GY (3)

## Summary

The bay-headed tanager (Tangara gyrola) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder in Costa Rica, Panama, South America south to Ecuador, Bolivia, and north-western Brazil, and on Trinidad.

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

## Photo

![Bay-headed Tanager](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bay-headed-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149789122

## Machine access

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