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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Another visitor to the USA that I am seeing in its winter home. Over all, we saw 11 species from the ABA list brining my American lifer list to #541.
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Shots from a photo tour led by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours www.neotropicphototours.com.
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fairly common
Shots from a photo tour led by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours www.neotropicphototours.com.
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