#Emerald tanager

[pangeen]

" Emerald Tanager " // © Javier Chaves

[triruntu]

#565, an emerald tanager orb.

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[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Emerald Tanager

Photo: Doug Greenberg

"Well-named tanager, mostly emerald-green with trapezoidal black cheek patch, back streaking and wing markings. Small and active, usually found in pairs following mixed feeding flocks in foothill forests and edges. Feeds on fruit. Sexes alike."

- eBird

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Tanagers

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[herpsandbirds]

Emerald Tanager (Tangara florida), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Sacha Gatusa Nature Reserve, Ecuador

photograph by Sean Crockett

[cognitivejustice]

With hundreds of highly prized species, bird tourism is thriving in the country – and farmers are increasingly turning their land into nature reserves

“Wildlife tourism is far more profitable than farming but that’s not the only reason we made the change,” says Ajila’s son, Luis Jr. “We wanted to save not just the umbrellabird, but all the special creatures here, and safeguard them for future generations.”

Projects such as this are eligible for funding from the Ecuadorian government. Launched in 2008, the Socio Bosque scheme offers “the poorest private and communal forest landowners annual payments for each hectare of forest cover maintained”, with sums of between $30 (£23) and $60 a hectare.

The Ajila family: Luis Jr, Alejandra and Luis Sr. Photograph: Dr Stephen Moss

But the income provided by birders alone has been enough to propel some farmers to take up the nature reserve model.A few years ago, Favián Luna decided to convert his 120-hectare tomato farm in the Tandayapa Valley, north-west of Quito, into a cloud-forest reserve and lodge called Alambi Reserve. Visitors go to photograph many species of hummingbirds, including the Andean emerald, native to the Chocó bioregion of the Ecuadorian Andes.

Nearby, at Mashpi Amagusa, former farmers Doris Villalbaand Sergio Basantes have created a reserve, lodge and garden, which attracts 260 species of sought-after birds. Highlights include glistening-green, flame-faced and beryl-spangled tanagers, and the rare, endemic rose-faced parrot.

At Finca La Victoriana in Pichincha, the owner Jacqui bought the house and land, and began to reforest the site while growing crops to feed herself. But during lockdown, when she was stuck in nearby Quito, all her crops were stolen. She was saved from having to sell up by a visiting friend, who heard an unusual sound from lower down the valley and realised this was one of South America’s most charismatic birds: the Andean cock-of-the-rock.

Male Andean cocks-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) lekking to attract a mate. Photograph: Jiri Hrebicek/Alamy

Since 2005, Ángel Paz and his younger brother Rodrigo have transformed their former dairy farm in Mindo into a bird reserve. At first, things didn’t go to plan: it took a month for the first visitor to arrive, and he paid just $10 for a four-hour tour. Since then, however, thousands of people have made the pilgrimage.

[wescillus]

Top 5 birds 💥💥

ganets, cormorants, cassowaries, emerald tanager, and bearded vultures

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🦚Send in a number + Character and I'll draw them in an outfit based on that bird🦚

Allen's Hummingbird

African Crowned Crane

African Emerald Cuckoo

American Goldfinch

Anna's Hummingbird

Asian Emerald Cuckoo

Asian Koel

Atlantic Puffin

Azure Kingfisher

Bald Eagle

Barn Owl

Barn Swallow

Barred Owl

Bat Falcon

Bearded Vulture

Bee Hummingbird

Black Swan

Blue-And-Yellow Macaw

Blue Crowned Pigeon

Blue-Footed Booby

Blue Jay

Bohemian Waxwing

Brahma Chicken

Broad-Billed Hummingbird

Bronze Fallow Cockatie

Canadian Goose

Cassowary

Cardinal

Common Raven

Coua

Dusky Lory

Diederik Cuckoo

Eastern Brown Pelican

Egret

Emerald Starling

Emperor Penguin

Emu

Eurasian Hoopoe

Eurasian Magpie

European Starling

European Turtle Dove

Flamingo

Frigatebird

Fruit Dove

Galah

Gambel's Quail

Golden-Breasted Starling

Golden Pheasant

Gouldian Finch

Grandala

Great Hornbill

Great Horned Owl

Greater Blue-Eared Starling

Green-Legged Partridge

Gurney’s Pitta

Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Hoatzin

Hooded Crow

Horned Sungem

Hyacinth Macaw

Kadaknath

Kakapo

Keel-Billed Toucan

Lilac-Breasted Roller

Long Tailed Tit

Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove

Mandarin Duck

Mountain Bluebird

Montezuma quail

Mute Swan

Nicobar Pigeon

Northern Oriole

Painted Bunting

Paradise Tanager

Peafowl (peacock/peahen)

Peregrine Falcon

Pileated Woodpecker

Pink Cockatoo

Rainbow Lorikeet

Red Crested Turaco

Red-Necked Tanager

Resplendent Quetzal

Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Scarlet Macaw

Secretary Bird

Snowy Owl

Stork-Billed Kingfisher

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

Superb Bird-Of-Paradise

Superb Starling

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Violetear

Violet-Backed Starling

Violet-Green Swallow

Wood Duck

Wilson's Bird-Of-Paradise

Yellow-Crowned Woodpecker

Yellow-Faced Myna

Zanzibar Red Bishop

[telomirage]

mustard. lavender. emerald. (to the tune of your tanager touchpaper) <3

[draweverybird]

July 29 - 30, 2023

- Red-crowned Ant-Tanager

- Glittering-bellied Emerald Hummingbird

- Drab-breasted Pygmy-Tyrant

- Great Myna

- Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin

- African Shrike-Flycatcher

Gotta say I was regretting my choice of reference photo halfway through that Manakin. But I'm happy with how the drawing turned out though!

[triruntu]

Hi! I love birds, and your art is gorgeous! I especially liked the American bittern you posted recently 😊 Since requests are open, I was hoping that you could do some of the following: marsh wren or house wren, baby common loon, mountain bluebird, tawny frogmouth, chimney swift, emerald tanager, hooded crow, black redstart, wood thrush, pheasant pigeon, sayaca tanager, Japanese pygmy woodpecker, pygmy nuthatch, yellow-crowned euphonia, killdeer, and Japanese royal flycatcher. Thanks!!!

Thank you!

I've got this list copied down and I'll be picking from it over the coming weeks. There's some good choices and some that I'd like to try on weeks when I have more time, so keep an eye out.

I've got this week already covered so the first one will be up next week at #520!

[na-bird-of-the-day]

Hello! Hope your doing great! If you're still taking requests, I have some Costa Rican birds for you (: (I checked and I don't think you've done any of them yet, but I may have missed something):

Cocos Cuckoo

Coppery-headed Emerald

Mangrove Hummingbird

Cocos Flycatcher

Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager

Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow

Cocos Finch

And our national bird which I think is common in other countries: the clay-colored thrush.

Thank you for reading this! Have a nice day!

Thank you for the suggestions! All have been posted :)

[mikemulrain]

Saturday 25th March

After breakfast we departed towards San Gerado de Dota and Savegre Cloud Forest. This area is said to be one of the best places in CR to see the beautiful and notoriously shy Resplendent Quetzel, these endangered birds rely on the cloud forest for their habitat; the males are particularly striking with a green crest, red breast and tail like feathers that can reach a metre in length.

Along the journey we stopped for a comfort break and to take photos before continuing on to the city of Cartagena, home to a spectacular basilica, it is said that a miracle took place in the woodlands where the city now stands when a girl collecting firewood came across a doll like icon which she took home, overnight it disappeared and she rediscovered it back in the same place in the woods, on a number of occasions, the local priest was called and stated that it was a miracle and a sign from God that he wanted a church to built on the spot! On the 15th April thousands of people flock there to seek the healing powers of the icon.

Our last 7km were down an extremely bumpy and steep track, barely wide enough for 2 vehicles with a very sheer drop, fortunately we were doing the trip in dry weather! Straight into lunch upon our arrival, 3 courses included, we all tucked into our meal, Guillermo had advised us that the hotel was supplied by a local trout farm, and so this came highly recommended as a dish to be tried. We booked in to our delightful bungalows amongst the prettiest gardens so far, offering a huge amount of bird life, especially numerous varieties of humming bird, the hotel has a spa but we will be hard pushed to find time to use it. A shout went up, just as we reached our rooms, the quetzal is visible in the hotel ground, in fact a pair of birds had decided to start nesting close by, we saw them briefly but were promised better sightings.

Our afternoon was taken up with a short walk to see the greenhouse on site, housing many succulents and then on to a local garden which was set up with multiple bird feeders to attract a wide variety of bird life, which could be seen at close quarters. The seating area allowed clear and close up visibility of several hummingbird species, several types tanagers, melodious blackbird, rose-breasted grosbeak, acorn woodpecker, rufus- collared sparrow and a great view of a northern emerald toucanet. It was so relaxing watching them come and go we spent quite some time there. We had an enjoyable evening meal discussing all the birds that we had spotted in the afternoon and headed for bed.

[herpsandbirds]

Emerald Tanager (Tangara florida), family Thraupidae, found in southern Central America and NW South America

photograph by Jorge Luis

[birdstudies]

April 18, 2022 - Emerald Tanager (Tangara florida)

Found in parts of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador, these tanagers live in foothill forests and forest edges. Foraging alone, in pairs, or in small groups, they often follow mixed-species flocks, feeding on fruit, flowers, and some arthropods. They build cup-shaped nests from moss on branches, where females lay clutches of two eggs.

[zoologica42]

Just a nice lil bird rainbow

Images from ebird, credits at the bottom.

Brazilian Tanager 

Temminck’s Sunbird

Iiwi

Scarlet-rumped trogon 

Fiery topaz

Orange dove

Sun parakeet (conure)

Saffron Finch

Yellow grosbeak

Golden dove

Emerald Tanager 

Green broadbill

Cuban Emerald

Schalow’s Turaco:

Blue Finch

Indigo flowerpiercer

Violet backed starling 

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