01 Dec

Carmiol’s tanager

The Carmiol’s tanager (Chlorothraupis carmioli) is also known as Olive Tanager. This bird lives from Nicaragua to East Peru and North Bolivia. Its places are understory and middle levels of wet forest in noisy flocks. Its size is of 17 cm (6 inches) in height and 38 g in weight.

This large bird is above olive-green, and below paler, brightest on throat. With bill black, and legs plumbeos. It forages for insects like beetles, roaches, crickets, katydids, or fruits, especially berries

[:en]Bird Blue Seedeater[:es]Ave Semillero Azulado[:]
23 Jul

Blue Seedeater

The Blue Seedeater (Amaurospiza concolor) ranges from Mexico to Northwest Ecuador. This bird inhabits in ravines, openings, and edges in primary or secondary forests where bamboo grows profusely. This small animal is 11 cm (4 inches) in heights and 13 g in weights.

Males are entirely dull blue-black, with bill black, lower mandible grayish at base, and legs gray. Females have bright brown to cinnamon upperparts, and below uniform cinnamon to dull tawny-chestnut. Its alimentation is of insects and feeds.

[:en]Bird Hepatic Tanager[:es]Ave Tangara Bermeja[:]
23 Jul

Hepatic Tanager

The Hepatic Tanager (Piranga flava) inhabits from the southwest part of United States to North Argentina. This bird frequents canopy and edge in mountainous terrain, usually in treetops. Matures are 18 cm (7 inches) in height and 40 g in weight.

Males are entirely dusky-red to dark brick-red, paler and brighter on throat and lower belly. Females are above olive-green, and below yellowish-olive, washed with olive-green on breast, sides, and flanks. Upper mandible blackish, and lower gray. Legs are dark gray. Its diet is based on insects and spiders, berries and arillate seeds.

[:en]Bird Summer Tanager[:es]Ave Tangara Veranera[:]
23 Jul

Summer Tanager

The Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) is found in breeding season in Canada and USA. In winter it lives from Mexico to Ecuador, Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil. Its natural habits are canopy and edges of evergreen and deciduous forests. Adults are 16.5 cm (6 inches) in height and 30 g in weight.

Males are below rosy-red, above darker and duskier rose-red. Females are above olive, and below yellow-olive. Its upper mandible is horn-color to yellowish-horn. Its lower mandible is pale yellowish, and its legs are grayish. Its diet is based on stingless bees and fruits.

[:en]Bird Scarlet Tanager[:es]Ave Tangara Escarlata[:]
23 Jul

Scarlet Tanager

The Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) breeds in South Canada and Southeast USA, and in winters in Panama and someparts of South America. Its natural habits are canopy and edge of forest, taller second growth and semi-open. Matures are 16 cm (6 inches) in height and 28 g in weight.

In winter, adults are above olive-green, below bright greenish-yellow, and washed with olive on breast, sides and flanks. Wings and tail black. In breeding season, its head and plumage is scarlet. Its bill is yellowish-brown and its legs are bluish-gray. They feed on spiders. Insects, and fruits

[:en]Bird Western Tanager[:es]Ave Tangara Carirroja[:]
23 Jul

Western Tanager

The Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) breeds in North America and in winters inhabits from Mexico to Costa Rica. Its place is in canopy of deciduous forests, crowns of small trees in scrub and second growth, semi-open and hedgerows. Its size is of 16.5 cm (6 inches) in height and 28 g in weight.

In winter it is above olive-green, tinged with orange on face, feathers of back black with broad olive-green tips. Rump brighter, yellowish-olive, and wings and tail black. Below us greenish-yellow tinged with olive. In breeding its back is black, and its nape, rump, and underparts bright yellow. Rest of the head orange-red. Its alimentation is of insects and many fruits.

[:en]Bird Flame-colored Tanager[:es]Ave Tangara Dorsirrayada[:]
23 Jul

Flame-colored Tanager

The Flame-Colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) ranges from Northwest Mexico to West Panama. Also called Streaked-backed Tanager, it is found in treetops in mountain forests and near shady pastures, coffee plantations, gardens, and cypress trees. Its measures are 18 cm (7 inches) in height and 38 g in weight.

Its head, neck, and underparts are orangered, with a blackish patch on auriculars. Back and rump duller, tinged with olive. Upper mandible black, lower mandible and legs gray. They feed on insects and fruits like berries and figs.