Speckled tanager Speckled tanager The speckled tanager ("Tangara guttata") is a medium-sized passerine bird. It is a resident breeder in Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname and the extreme north of Brazil. There are also sight records from French Guiana. It is probably a close relative of the spotted tanager ("T. punctata") which replaces it to the south. These two species are generally presumably to be fully allopatric, but may actually be parapatric: in 1998 a speckled tanager was found in the Serranía de los Churumbelos (Colombia), just about north of where spotted tanagers are known to occur. Adult speckled
Geography of Suriname 0.06% <br>"Other:" 99.58% (2003) Tropical Showers, no hurricanes. Deforestation is a real problem as timber is cut for export. There is also a lot of pollution of inland waterways by small-scale mining activities. Suriname has agreed to the following agreements: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling Geography of Suriname Suriname is located in northern South America and is part of Caribbean South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana. It is mostly covered by tropical rain forest, containing a great diversity