June 3, Quito, Ecuador birds, Part VII (confusing female/immature tanagers) (1 Viewer)

howiewu

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• Jun 21, 2018

• #1

Hi,

Continuing .. these were taken on June 3, 2018 in the cloud forest near the town of Nanegalito northwest of Quito, Ecuador, probably at the elevation of 1700m or so.

I don't have much clue ...

1-3: They appear to be of the same species (they are probably NOT the same individual), a female euphonia of some kind?
4. A female/juvenile of a tanager?
5. I initially thought this was a blackbird (maybe Scrub?), but now its bill looks like a tanager's to me. What is it?

What do you think?

Thanks in advance,
Howard

 

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Cormac

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• Jun 21, 2018

• #2

Great photos. What camera / lens did you use.

 

howiewu

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• Jun 22, 2018

• #3

CFMAC said:

Great photos. What camera / lens did you use.

Click to expand...

Thanks, I used a Canon EOS 7D II camera and a 100-400 II telephoto lens.

 

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THE_FERN

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• Jun 22, 2018

• #4

First 3 are euphonias. See previous discussions of your euphonia pictures. Note these have more evident grey in some cases. For 4 can't make this anything other than female lemon-rumped tanager with a somewhat oddly-coloured bill (all dark), so perhaps immature. 5 is male white-lined tanager

 

howiewu

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• Jun 22, 2018

• #5

Thanks! Good call on the White-lined! I can now even see a sliver of white on its wing!

 

njlarsen

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• Jun 22, 2018

• #6

Agree on lemon-rumped for 4

Niels

 

pbjosh

missing the neotropics

• Jun 22, 2018

• #7

Agree with Euphonia sp, Lemon-rumped, White-lined...