LEMON-RUMPED TANAGER Female Ramphocelus icteronotus Seeking Porotón Nectar in Mindo in Northwestern ECUADOR. Tanager Photo by Peter Wendelken.

LEMON-RUMPED TANAGER female Ramphocelus icteronotus. This female Lemon-rumped Tanager was observed drinking nectar from the orange, cup-like Porotón flowers of the leguminous tree, Erythrina megistophylla Diels, family Fabaceae, along the Vía Cunuco about two miles north of Mindo in northwestern Ecuador at 9:45 AM on June 7, 2020.

 

The Lemon-rumped Tanager is a member of the family Thraupidae. It has been treated as a subspecies of the Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus icteronotus.

 

Erythrina megistophylla is endemic to Ecuador and has flowers adapted to pollination by passerine (perching) birds. We have observed a variety of passerine birds, as well as a number of hummingbird species, drinking nectar from these flowers. Porotón is one of the common names of this tree species.

 

Una hembra de Tangara Lomilimón Ramphocelus icteronotus se observó bebiendo el néctar de las flores naranjas de un árbol leguminoso Erythrina megistophylla (nombre común Porotón), familia Fabaceae, por la Vía Cunuco unos 4 kilometros al norte de Mindo en el noroeste de Ecuador a las 9 y 45 de la mañana el 7 de junio de 2020.

 

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