Hepatic or Summer Tanager? (1 Viewer)

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49bentley

Well-known member

• Apr 15, 2018

• #1

Can someone please identify this bird - is it a Hepatic or Summer Tanager? Taken at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge (San Gerardo de Dota) in Costa Rica in January.
Thanks
Chris

 

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Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Apr 15, 2018

• #2

Hepatic, I think, but tough angle.

 

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49bentley

Well-known member

• Apr 15, 2018

• #3

Thanks Jeff. Its all a matter of subtle differences. Hepatic is resident in area.

 

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birdmeister

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2018

• #4

Agree that it's a tough angle. The bill looks much better for Summer to me, but the apparent darker area between eye and bill would support Hepatic.

I'd say Summer, but I'm not sure.

 

njlarsen

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• Apr 16, 2018

• #5

Disclaimer: I have much more experience with summer than hepatic tanager. I get little summer feel for this bird (so lean more towards hepatic).

Niels

 

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tom baxter

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2018

• #6

I definitely am in the Summer camp. The head and body is completely red without the gray tones of Hepatic and the bill is yellowish and large. This is just about the time Summer starts arriving down this way.

edit: whoops location... I wasn't paying attention on that arriving comment. still Summer

 

Larry Sweetland

Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'

• Apr 16, 2018

• #7

Anyone up on how Tooth-billed (Hepatic) Tanager differs from (Northern) Hepatic?

 

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49bentley

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2018

• #8

Thanks to all for the help.