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TANAGERS - THRAUPIDAE - PART II
Tangara tanagers to chlorophonias
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Silvery Tanager
Tangara viridicollis fulvigula
Abra Patricia, San Martin department, Peru.
Male. Also known as Silver-backed Tanager.
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Burnished-buff Tanager
Tangara cayana chloroptera
Sumidouro, Rio de Janiero state, Brazil.
Male. |
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Burnished-buff Tanager
Tangara cayana flava
Chapada de Diamantina, Bahia state, Brazil.
Female. |
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Scrub Tanager
Tangara vitriolina RNA Arrierito Antioqueño, Anorí, Antioquia department, Colombia.
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Blue-necked Tanager
Tangara cyanicollis caeruleocephala
Shaime, Zamora-Chinchipe province, Ecuador. |
 | Speckled Tanager Tangara guttata chrysophrys
Rancho Grande, Henri Pittier NP, Aragua state, Venezuela. Note
the bright yellow on the face, a useful feature for separating it from
similar species in areas of overlap (e.g. the Sierra de Lema in
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Opal-rumped Tanager
Tangara velia cyanomelaena
Estação Veracruz, Porto Seguro, Bahia state, Brazil.
The race endemic to the Atlantic Forests of eastern Brazil, which possibly deserves to be a distinct species. |
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Green-headed Tanager
Tangara seledon
Folha Seca, São Paulo state, Brazil.
A beautiful Atlantic Rainforest endemic. It occurs mainly in Brazil, but also gets into Argentina and Paraguay. |
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Red-necked Tanager
Tangara cyanocephala cyanocephala
RPPN Serra Bonita, Camacan, Bahia state, Brazil.
Nearly endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest, and
often occurs together with the previous species. There is a good new
lodge in this reserve! |
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Brassy-breasted Tanager
Tangara desmaresti
Macaé de Cima, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
A slightly more localized Atlantic Rainforest endemic, this one only occurs in mountainous regions of SE Brazil. |
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Rufous-winged Tanager
Tangara lavinia lavinia(?)
Cerro Azul, Panama province, Panama.
Probably a juvenile due to the blotchy overall appearance. |
 | Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola toddi Rancho Grande, Henri Pittier NP, Aragua state, Venezuela. |
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Golden Tanager
Tangara arthus arthus
Rancho Grande, Henri Pittier NP, Aragua state, Venezuela.
Perhaps the most striking race of this species, with a chestnut vest that is completely lacking in some of the other races. |
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Emerald Tanager
Tangara florida
Mirador Rio Blanco, Los Bancos, Pichincha province, Ecuador. |
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Silver-throated Tanager
Tangara icterocephala frantzii
La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Heredia province, Costa Rica. |
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Swallow Tanager
Tersina viridis viridis
Caraça reserve, Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
Female. |
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Turquoise Dacnis
Dacnis hartlaubi
Reserva Reinita Cielo Azul, Santander department, Colombia.
Male. A very localized Colombian endemic. The reason
for it's rarity is poorly known since it is not a bird of primary
forest. I saw this one in a tall tree in a coffee plantation.
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Blue Dacnis
Dacnis cayana paraguayensis
Michelin Forest, Ituberá, Bahia state, Brazil.
Male. |
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Red-legged Honeycreeper
Cyanerpes cyaneus pacificus
San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas province, Ecuador.
Male. |
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Green Honeycreeper
Chlorophanes spiza exsul
Tinalandia, Pichincha province, Ecuador.
Male. |
 | Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza spiza Rancho Grande, Henri Pittier NP, Aragua state, Venezuela. The two subspecies shown here are virtually identical. |
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Golden-collared Honeycreeper
Iridophanes pulcherrimus pulcherrimus
Cabañas San Isidro, Napo province, Ecuador.
Male. |
 | Glossy Flowerpiercer Diglossa lafresnayii Yanacocha reserve, Pichincha province, Ecuador. I normally don't like feeder shots, but this one's pretty neat! |
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Masked Flowerpiercer
Diglossa cyanea cyanea
Las Tabias, Mérida state, Venezuela. |
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Finsch's Euphonia
Euphonia finschi
Surama village, Potaro-Siparuni region, Guyana.
Male. A euphonia nearly endemic to the Guianas, barely getting into adjacent parts of Brazil and Venezuela. |
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Fulvous-vented Euphonia
Euphonia fulvicrissa fulvicrissa
Canopy Tower, Panama province, Panama.
Male. |
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Olive-backed Tanager
Euphonia gouldi praetermissa
La Selva OTS, Heredia province, Costa Rica.
Male. |
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Orange-bellied Euphonia
Euphonia xanthogaster exsul
Rancho Grande, Henri Pittier NP, Aragua state, Venezuela.
Male.
An example of one of the northernmost races, which have a chestnut
crown. The euphonias and chlorophonias have been transferred into the
Fringillidae, but I have not updates the galleries yet. |
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Orange-bellied Euphonia
Euphonia xanthogaster quitensis
Mirador Rio Blanco, Los Bancos, Pichincha province, Ecuador.
Female. |
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Chestnut-bellied Euphonia
Euphonia pectoralis
Hotel do Ypê, Itatiaia NP, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Male. |
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Blue-naped Chlorophonia
Chlorophonia cyanea cyanea
Hotel do Ypê, Itatiaia NP, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Male. |
 | Dusky Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus semifuscus semifuscus Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha province, Ecuador. Feeding on Melastome berries. A Chocó Endemic. |
 | Bananaquit Coereba flaveola chloropyga(?)
Mello Leitão Museum, Santa Tereza, Espiritu Santo state, Brazil. No
one really knows where this familiar bird belongs in the taxonomic
order. Often it is but in its own monotypic family, the Coerebidae, but
more recently the SACC has labeled it as Incertae Sedis. I'm going to
leave it here at the end of the tanagers for now. |
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