How accurate is Birdsong's bird identifier?

It runs Google's Perch, a research-grade acoustic model covering nearly 15,000 species. When a call is ambiguous, we say so honestly and let you record a second clip to confirm, rather than guessing.

Is my recording stored?

No. Your audio is used to identify the bird in the moment and isn't saved to our servers. The birds you confirm are kept as cards in your own field journal; the recordings themselves are not.

Is the bird identifier free?

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Do I need an account or internet to identify a bird?

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Birdsong field guide

Yellow-winged Tanager

Thraupis abbas

A medium-sized Neotropical songbird distinguished by its lavender-blue body and vibrant yellow wing patches. It is a common and social resident of humid open woodlands and agricultural clearings.

What it sounds like

A series of thin, high-pitched 'tsee' whistles and buzzy, squeaky notes.

Reference call, compare with what you heard

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Rec. Richard E. Webster · MexicoCC BY-NC-SA Xeno-canto

Field notes

The distinctive yellow wing patches are formed by the secondary coverts and the bases of the remiges, becoming highly visible during flight.
Unlike many other tanager species, the Yellow-winged Tanager shows very little sexual dimorphism, meaning males and females look nearly identical.
It is a highly social bird that frequently acts as a 'nuclear' species in mixed-species foraging flocks.
Its diet is primarily frugivorous, and it is known to frequent garden feeders for fruit like bananas and papayas.
They construct relatively small, deep cup-shaped nests hidden in dense foliage, often using moss and spiderwebs for structure.

Habitat

Humid tropical lowlands, forest edges, plantations, and suburban gardens.

Range

Eastern Mexico south through Central America to northeastern Nicaragua.

Similar & commonly confused birds

Azure-shouldered TanagerThraupis cyanoptera Blue-gray TanagerThraupis episcopus Glaucous TanagerThraupis glaucocolpa Golden-chevroned TanagerThraupis ornata Palm TanagerThraupis palmarum Sayaca TanagerThraupis sayaca

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