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Blue-hooded Tanager
Tangara cyanicollis cyanopygia
-1.5, -78.05
Field Notes
Description:
Called the Blue-necked Tanager by some, it measures about 12 cm. It is a very striking bird with its bright blue head with black mask around the eyes and avross the beak, which is black. The body is a deep blue/violet with yellowish-white wing coverlets that stand out in contrast to the dark body.
Habitat:
These birds were seen in a tree on the outskirts of a small town on the edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle (1060 masl).
Notes:
This spotting is part of a 3-fer. I was trying to get a picture of a bird in a tree close by but it flew off. I saw the tree where it landed and maxed out my zoom to find him and found there were also 2 pairs of Tanagers that were each different. They are listed separately but you can see what I saw in my viewfinder in photo 5. All three species were firsts for me.
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