Thraupidae : Tanagers Only
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Found this beauty while going through some very old Florida images and could not resist posting it.
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Long-distance migrant. Twice a year, Scarlet Tanagers fly across the Gulf of Mexico between their breeding grounds in eastern North America and their wintering grounds in South America. They usually migrate at night. Individuals that spend the winter farther south migrate to breeding grounds later, and in more synchronized bursts, than individuals wintering further north. (Cornell Lab)
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Tangara gyrola
(Bay-headed Tanager / Tángara cabecirroja)
The Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola) is a vibrantly-colored, tropical bird that occurs in Costa Rica, Panama, and in much of northern South America.
Tangara gyrola commonly occurs found in the canopy of humid forest. They also inhabit nearby clearings with scattered trees, semi-open areas, and tall second growth forests. Their diet mainly consists of fruits, but they frequently eat insects.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
Scarlet tanager male spending a calm moment on a beautiful perch with water droplets just minutes after the rain
The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis)is from the humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America. Seen in the new Hummingbird Habitat at the San Diego Zoo. Conservation status least concern.
Scarlet tanager captured at Point Pelee!
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This image was taken last Saturday morning April 20 after a huge storm came through on the Friday evening. I went to Fort De Soto Park in St Petersburg hoping for migrants, I was not disappointed, birds were everywhere in the sea grape trees feeding on the insects that were there. This will be the last image I post for awhile as we are traveling back home this week-end.
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Despite its name, the Brazilian Tanager is not, quite, endemic to the lowlands of the Atlantic Forest biome of eastern Brazil, being also found in extreme northeast Argentina. Males are impossible mistake, being brilliant scarlet-red with a black tail and wings, and a very obviously pale mandible to the bill. Females, on the other hand, are less distinctively plumaged and recall, to some extent, females of other Ramphocelus tanagers, or even some Tachyphonus, but are generally much redder over the underparts than any similar species. There is no known overlap with the congeneric and much more widespread Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo), which is substantially darker in both sexes than the present species, although the two probably come close in various parts of eastern Brazil. doi.org/10.2173/bow.bratan1.01
Adding some colors to a rainy Tuesday!
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La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Stilpnia vitriolina (Scrub Tanager / Tangara Rastrojera)
The Scrub Tanager is a common open country bird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. Due to its preference for scrub and bushy areas, it is most easily found in dry intermontane ‘rainshadow’ valleys but is expanding into more humid areas in the wake of human disturbance.
The Scrub Tanager is identified by its silvery greenish plumage, rust-colored cap and black mask. In further contrast to this typically gregarious genus, the Scrub Tanager most often is encountered as solitary pairs.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
La Ceja, Colombia; 2300 meters above sea level.
Thraupis episcopus (Blue-gray Tanager / Azulejo)
The Blue-grey Tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the Tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil. Sexes are similar.
Wikipedia
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Stilpnia vitriolina (Scrub Tanager / Tangara Rastrojera)
The Scrub Tanager is a common open country bird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. Due to its preference for scrub and bushy areas, it is most easily found in dry intermontane ‘rainshadow’ valleys but is expanding into more humid areas in the wake of human disturbance.
The Scrub Tanager is identified by its silvery greenish plumage, rust-colored cap and black mask. In further contrast to this typically gregarious genus, the Scrub Tanager most often is encountered as solitary pairs.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Stilpnia vitriolina (Scrub Tanager / Tangara Rastrojera)
The Scrub Tanager is a common open country bird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. Due to its preference for scrub and bushy areas, it is most easily found in dry intermontane ‘rainshadow’ valleys but is expanding into more humid areas in the wake of human disturbance.
The Scrub Tanager is identified by its silvery greenish plumage, rust-colored cap and black mask. In further contrast to this typically gregarious genus, the Scrub Tanager most often is encountered as solitary pairs.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Thraupis palmarum (Palm Tanager / Tángara palmera)
The Palm Tanager is one of the most widespread and familiar birds of the neotropics, from Nicaragua south to southern Brazil. They are common at forest borders, but also occur in the canopy of the interior of forest. As the name suggests, Palm Tanagers often are associated with palm trees, but by no means are they restricted to living in palms.
Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Summertime, Summertime!! Well, not quite, but it kind of feels like it.
I got out of bed this morning, opened the bedroom window blinds and immediately spotted this gentleman, a first for our property.
Finca Alejandria Km 18 Via Cali, Cali, Colombia.
Tangara arthus (Golden tanager / Tangara dorada)
The Golden Tanager is endemic to South America. They eat a combination of fruit and insects, and hops along mossy branches in search of the latter. The Golden Tanager occurs in humid montane forests from Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia. It also occurs at forest borders, but is a predominantly a forest dwelling bird.
Source: Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Tangara nigroviridis
(Beryl-spangled Tanager / Tangara lentejuelada)
The Beryl-spangled Tanager is found at high elevations in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Much of the head and underparts are black, heavily spotted, the spots appearing bluish or greenish. This feature gives them their brightly-colored, "spangled" appearance.
Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Finca Alejandria, Km 18 Via Cali-Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia.
Tangara xanthocephala
(Saffron-crowned Tanager / Tángara coronada)
Saffron-crowned Tanager is a brightly colored tanager with a distinctive yellow head. This species occurs through the Andes from Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia, and occupies humid montane forests and secondary woodlands.
Due to human destruction of habitat, it is hypothesized that the population numbers are decreasing. Like most Tangara tanagers, the Saffron-crowned is sexually monomorphic.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...