Tanagers & Allies

Blue Dacnis

Dacnis cayana

The Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana) is a 13 g forest bird that eats mostly fruit. It stays put all year.

Family

Tanagers & Allies

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

13 g

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Omnivore

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

16

Recorded in Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, GF, Nicaragua, Honduras.

Where to see it: Canopy Tower (Panama); Roche Corail (French Guiana); Panama Rainforest Discovery Center (Panama); PN Iguazú · Área Cataratas (Argentina); Blanchisseuse Road (Trinidad and Tobago).

Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist