Papa's Travel Blog
Monday, July 7, 2025
Bay-headed Tanager
The Bay-headed Tanager is a stunning tanager that is mostly green with reddish head. Some populations have electric blue underparts, others entirely green.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Golden-hooded Tanager
The Golden-hooded Tanager is a very attractive small tanager of humid tropical lowlands that is found in humid evergreen forest edges, plantations, and gardens. At times with mixed-species feeding flocks of honeycreepers and euphonias as was the case when we observed this tanager.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
The Scarlet-rumped Tanager is fairly common in humid tropical lowlands. They favour evergreen forest edges, plantations, and verdant second growth, such as areas along roadsides. They forage mainly at low to middle levels often in fairly noisy small groups.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Crimson Collared Tanager
The Crimson Collared Tanager is a beautiful tanager of humid tropical lowlands that favours evergreen forest edge and verdant second growth.
They forage unobtrusively at all levels in trees and bushes, usually in pairs. The sexes are alike and are velvety black overall with a bright bluish-white bill and a glossy crimson collar and rump. Cornell All About Birds
They forage unobtrusively at all levels in trees and bushes, usually in pairs. The sexes are alike and are velvety black overall with a bright bluish-white bill and a glossy crimson collar and rump. Cornell All About Birds
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Green-crowned Brilliant
The Green-crowned Brilliant is a fairly large hummingbird, sleek and long-tailed with straight bill. The male is entirely emerald green with small blue throat patch only visible at some angles as seen here.
The female has spotted green breast with a conspicuous white mustache stripe and white spot behind eye as seen here.
The female has spotted green breast with a conspicuous white mustache stripe and white spot behind eye as seen here.
The juvenile has pale rufous malars and chin as seen below.
Friday, June 27, 2025
Slaty-backed Nightingale Thrush
The Slaty-backed Nightingale Thrush is a small skulking thrush, far more often heard than seen. It was raining pretty good when we observed this thrush in the understory. They are all sooty gray, darkest on forehead, with whiter belly.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
White-eared Ground-sparrow
The White-eared Ground-sparrow is a strikingly patterned large sparrow that favours tropical and subtropical forests, shade-coffee plantations, and brushy edges.
Monday, June 23, 2025
Green-fronted Lancebill
The Green-fronted Lancebill has a super long straight bill. They are dull greenish overall with iridescent green forehead and bronzy nape.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Green Thorntail
The Green Thorntail is a tiny hummingbird with a short straight bill. The male is all shimmering green with distinctive, long, pointed tail feathers while the female has a short tail and a distinctive white mustache.
It took quite awhile but I was pretty happy capturing this image of a Green Thorntail one of my favourite hummers that we observed.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Green Hermit
The Green Hermit is a large hummingbird with long white-tipped central tail feathers. The male is entirely blue-green while the female has a gray belly, green back, and obvious stripes on face.
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