Hi all,
I visited this location on August 26 this year. I know I saw male Bay-headed, Rufous-winged and Emerald tanagers plus some others that are not so green. I thought I took many photos of female/immature Rufous-winged and no photos of the other species. Looking at the images now, I have doubt, because Birds of the world states:
Niels
I visited this location on August 26 this year. I know I saw male Bay-headed, Rufous-winged and Emerald tanagers plus some others that are not so green. I thought I took many photos of female/immature Rufous-winged and no photos of the other species. Looking at the images now, I have doubt, because Birds of the world states:
Immature: The young resemble the adult female, though duller in appearance. The blue belly is mixed with dull white, and the crissum is a pale yellow color.
So, the first of these images seems OK for an immature bird - I think I see rufous on the edge of the primaries seen from below. The second photo I am more in doubt - I cannot see any rufous. At the time of taking the images I thought these might be the same bird and there is only two seconds in between and the branches around seems to be the same. So what did I get photos of?AND: even immature Rufous-winged Tanagers have traces of rufous on the wings (Hilty and Brown 1986). Though the rufous on females and immatures are not as apparent as in the males, a patch of rufous usually shows on at least the flight feathers (Ridgley and Greenfield 2001).
Niels