After the tour, my wife joined and we went to spent some time at Manuel Antonio National Park in Quepos, Costa Rica. This bird is related to tanagers and feeds on fruit with other birds. with that in mimd, I stalked a fruiting tree in the neighborhood and Voila!
This tree will prove to be a great spot for five lifers!
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Female, Cherrie's, from Manual Antonio (pacific coast).
From Wiki: The scarlet-rumped tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder in the Caribbean lowlands from southern Mexico to western Panama. This species was formerly known as the scarlet-rumped tanager, but was renamed to Passerini's Tanager after Carlo Passerini, a professor at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Florence, when the distinctive form found on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama was reclassified as a separate species, the Cherrie's tanager, Ramphocelus costaricensis. While most authorities had accepted this split, there were notable exceptions (e.g. the Howard and Moore checklist). It was renamed back to the scarlet-rumped tanager in 2018 when Cherrie's Tanager was lumped back into the species.
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From eBird: Small bird, plump and compact with stout bill. Male and female both lime green with yellow belly and blue cap. Males have prominent yellow eyebrow. Usually seen in pairs or small flocks, often in association with a fruiting tree. Forages at all levels, most frequently the canopy. Listen for its single low-pitched whistle.
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I saw this species i several location but the flowers in the background created perfect bokeh
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Male number two, displaying to his rivals. later I will assemble a gif out of the 162 frames I have of this guy. check out the movie:
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Shot on a photo tour led by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours www.neotropicphototours.com. I will not post in any particular order and out of respect to ur excellent tour leader, will not add GPS data.
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