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Bird name: Grey Hooded Bush Tanager
Latin: Cnemoscopus rubrirostris
Other: Montero piquirrojo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

Just a record shot of a Grey-hooded Bush-Tanager in Ecuador. One of only two Bush-tanagers still in the Thraupidae family.

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Chapada das Guimaraes, August 2011

Bird name: Red Pileated Finch
Latin: Coryphospingus cucullatus
Other: Red-crested Finch • Brasita (Es) • Tico-tico-rei (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers etc
Range: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Guyanas, Brazil, Uruguay
Similar:

The dry scrubland, known as cerrado, on the Chapada das Guimaraes plateau was a good place to see the Red-pileated Finch in late August. I saw them just after dawn on a couple of occasions.

The male Red Pileated Finch (or Red-crested Finch) is bright red, with white eye-ring and darker wings and tail. The large crest was not raised in display when I saw them. The female (below) is duller but still has the white eye-ring.

Below, female Red Pileated Finch, Chapada das Guimaraes, Brazil
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Panama, Gamboa, May 2010

Bird name: Lemon Rumped Tanager
Latin: Ramphocelus icteronotus
Other: Flame-rumped Tanager • Tangara lomilimón (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Similar:

Lemon-rumped Tanagers hybridize with Flame-rumped Tanagers, and so are often lumped together. But for the purposes of this entry, if the rump is yellow, not red, the bird is called Lemon-rumped, even though the birds in Panama were often referred to as Flame-rumped Tanagers by the guides.

Females, in particular, were not uncommon in Gamboa and El Valle. Lemon-rumped Tanagers were also seen frequently in Ecuador, especially around Mindo - only in the west.

The Lemon-rumped Tanager male is black with a very bright lemon rump. The female is yellow below and brown above - a slightly washed out look with light throat, and pale wingbar visible. Both have light bluish-white bills with dark tip.

Below, female Lemon-rumped Tanager, Panama


Below, male Lemon-rumped Tanager, Ecuador, 2011
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Panama, May 2010

Bird name: Red Legged Honeycreeper
Latin: Cyanerpes cyaneus
Other: Mielero dorsioscuro, Mielero patirrojo (Es) • Saíra-beija-flor, saí-azul-de-pernas-vermelhas (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Honeycreepers
Range: Mexico to Brazil
Similar:

The Red-legged Honeycreeper was a typical fruit feeder bird in Canopy Lodge, El Valle, Panama, and also seen in forest outskirts.

The male (above) has bright red legs, electric blue cap, sometimes crested, black eye mask, and the rest intense blue. The female, directly below, is greenish with reddish legs.

Below, female Red-legged Honeycreeper, Panama
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Bird name: Purple Honeycreeper
Latin: Cyanerpes caeruleus
Other: Certiola de patas amarillas, tucuso morado, mielero cerúleo (Es) • Saí-de-perna-amarela (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Honeycreepers
Range: Amazonia - Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Guyanas, Venezuela, Trinidad
Similar:

Record shots of male Purple Honeycreepers. The bright yellow legs are diagnostic.More photos...

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Bird name: Short Billed Honeycreeper
Latin: Cyanerpes nitidus
Other: Mielero mielero piquicorto, mielero pico de tuna, copeicillo pico corto (Es) • Saí-de-bico-curto (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Honeycreepers
Range: Amazonia - Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Guyanas, Venezuela
Similar:

A record shot of a couple of Short Billed Honeycreepers which were in a mixed flock with a Yellow-bellied Dacnis. The male is blue and black, the female pale with yellow-green

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Bird name: Green Honeycreeper
Latin: Chlorophanes spiza
Other: Mielero verde (Es) • Saí-verde (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Honeycreepers
Range: Mexico to Brazil
Similar:

The Green Honeycreeper is a fairly common visitor to Jonas’ fruit feeders in Brazil. The male, above, has a distinctively shaped black hood on a turquoise body. The female, directly below, is leaf green. Both have yellow lower half of bill and red irises.

A juvenile male is pictured further below, showing a mixture of male and female plumage.

The lowest photo, taken in Panama on the observation deck of the Canopy Tower hotel, shows a female on a Cecropia with darker olive wing markings than the Brazilian birds I saw.

Below, a female Green Honeycreeper, Brazil.
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Bird name: Shining Honeycreeper
Latin: Cyanerpes lucidus
Other: Mielero dorsiazul (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Honeycreepers
Range: Mexico to Colombia
Similar: Red-legged Honeycreeper

Just a record shot of this Shining Honeycreeper seen in Panama! NB yellow legs.

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Bird name: Blue Dacnis
Latin: Dacnis cayana
Other: Turquoise Honeycreeper • Saí azul (Br) • Dacnis azul, mielero turquesa (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Dacnises
Range: Nicaragua to Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil
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The Blue Dacnis is a widespread tanager found in much of South and Central America, including nearly all of Brazil. It will visit fruit feeders and sometimes even tries nectar feeders. Also seen on Cecropia from observation deck of Canopy Tower in Panama.

The Blue Dacnis has pink legs, and a black wedge-shaped mask. Plumage is electric blue in the male (above) with black on back, wings and black bill. The female (below) has a green body and blue head.

The lowest photo shows a bird which may be a very young Blue Dacnis, but shows little of the usual colouration.

Below, female Blue Dacnis.

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Bird name: Scarlet Thighed Dacnis
Latin: Dacnis venusta
Other: Mielero de muslos rojos, dacnis negriazul (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Dacnises
Range: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Similar:

The male Scarlet-thighed Dacnis has black underparts, which join up to black eye mask. It is bright blue above and has red thighs but these can be difficult to see. The female Scarlet-thighed Dacnis, directly below, is pale creamy beige below. Both have red irises.

There are a couple of photos below of birds showing some light on the belly and some black on throat and chest, probably immature males.

Seen fairly regularly on outings in El Valle and again at Finca Hartmann, in fairly open sunny locations with fruiting trees.

Below, female Scarlet-thighed Dacnis, Panama
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Bird name: Yellow Bellied Dacnis
Latin: Dacnis flaviventer
Other: Saí-amarela (Br) • Dacnis ventriamarillo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Dacnises
Range: Amazonia - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela
Similar: A passing likeness to some orioles

Record shots of Yellow-bellied Dacnis, seen in Pará, Brazil, September, and Oriente, Ecuador with a mixed flock. Yellow and black with red irises.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, February 2011

Bird name: Golden Naped Tanager
Latin: Tangara ruficervix
Other: Tángara nuquidorada (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Metallic-green Tanager

The Golden-naped Tanager was seen at the Santa Lucia Reserve and in the highlands of Mindo, Ecuador.

The Golden-naped Tanager is a generally blue bird, with black mask, cream belly and crissum, and small light patch on back of head.More photos...

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Bird name: Black Capped Tanager
Latin: Tangara heinei
Other: Tangara gorrinegra (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Similar:

The adult male Black-capped Tanager, pictured above, has the typical black cap, bright blue body and green collar. The one I saw below was more grey and black than blue. The female (record shot further below) is green and yellow.More photos...

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Bird name: Bay Headed Tanager
Latin: Tangara gyrola
Other: Tángara cabeciroja (Es) • Saíra-de-cabeça-castanha (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil through N, W Amazonia
Similar:

More bright colours. The Bay-headed Tanager has a chestnut head, light blue underparts and green upperparts. The female is similar to the male but duller.

There are variations in race. In Para, Brazil, Bay headed-Tanagers had more yellow on neck and shoulders (pic below). In Mindo, Ecuador, they had much yellow on wing (pic below).

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Bird name: Chestnut Bellied Seedeater
Latin: Sporophila castaneiventris
Other: Espiguero de vientre castaño, buchicastaño (Es) • Caboclinho-de-peito-castanho (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Guyanas, Brazil
Similar:

A record shot of Chestnut-bellied Seedeater near Tena, Ecuador. This one seemed to only have partial rufous underparts - mostly on throat and crissum - but others on the internet have much more extensive colouring - maybe different subspecies? Female brown. In Ecuador, only found in the Eastern lowlands.

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Bird name: Chestnut Bellied Seed Finch
Latin: Oryzoborus angolensis
Other: Split from Lesser Seed-Finch • Semillero sabanero, arrocero buchicastaño, cacagüero, tawa tawa, curió (Es) • Curió (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seed-finches
Range: East of Andes - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil etc
Similar: Female Thick-billed Seed-finch

The male Chestnut-Bellied Seed-Finch has a large bill, chestnut belly, and is otherwise black with a white mark on wing. All the individuals I saw in eastern Ecuador were similar to the bird pictured above, with a mottled aspect to the chestnut underparts.

The female is brown. The photo below is probably one, based on bill shape.

The Chestnut-Bellied Seed-Finch used to be grouped with the Thick-billed Seed-finch as the Lesser Seed-Finch.More photos...

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Bird name: Thick Billed Seed Finch
Latin: Oryzoborus funereus
Other: Split from O. angolensis, was Lesser Seed Finch • Semillerito piquigrueso (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seed-finches
Range: SE Mexico to W Ecuador
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The Thick-billed Seed Finch (a.k.a. Lesser Seed Finch) has a large bill, is all black with a white mark on wing.

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Bird name: Plain Colored Seedeater
Latin: Catamenia inornata
Other: Plain-coloured Seedeater (UK) • Semillero sencillo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
Similar: Catamenia seedeaters

I saw these Plain-colored Seedeaters at around 3000 metres altitude in Ecuador.

The male (above) Plain-colored Seedeater is greyish with orange bill and rufous crissum (under base of tail). The female (below) is streaked and brownish.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Yellow Bellied Seedeater
Latin: Sporophila nigricollis
Other: Espiguero capuchino, espiguero vientriamarillo, espiguero corbatita amarillo (Es) • Papa-capim-capuchinho, Baiano (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range: Costa Rica, Panama to Bolivia, Brazil
Similar: Female Variable Seedeater

The male Yellow-bellied Seedeater above, seen at Finca Hartmann, is pale, but there is considerable individual variation in the amount of yellow on the belly. Pictured below, a Yellow-bellied Seedeater from Mindo, Ecuador, which is more yellow. Male Yellow-bellied Seedeaters are easy enough to identify by their dark hood.

The presumed female Yellow-bellied Seedeater, directly below, looks much like the female Variable Seedeater, so ID should be treated with caution.

Below, presumed female Yellow-bellied Seedeater, W. Panama.
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Bird name: Ruddy Breasted Seedeater
Latin: Sporophila minuta
Other: Semillerito pechicanelo, Espiguero menudo (Es) • Caboclinho-lindo (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range: SW Mexico through N South America
Similar:

A Ruddy-breasted Seedeater in Panama.More photos...

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Bird name: Saffron Finch
Latin: Sicalis flaveola
Other: Canário-da-terra-verdadeiro (Br) • Canario de tejado (Es), Jilguero dorado
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Finches
Range: South America, Caribbean
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The Saffron Finch is now classed with the Tanagers (Thraupidae) rather than the Buntings (Emberizidae).

The male is distinguished by a bright yellow front and orange/saffron glow above and sometimes below the face - there are various races.

The race pictured above is probably subspecies pelzelni, from location. Females and juveniles are hard to distinguish - they lack most of the yellow colouring and therefore look similar to other females. I’m going here on the striped chest as a distinguishing feature, but treat my IDs with caution.

As you can see below, the Saffron Finch takes advantage of the Rufous Hornero’s great nest-building abilities. Rufous Hornero’s typically build a new nest every year, so there are plenty of empty ones to be squatted.

The Saffron Finch is found throughout much of South America and the Caribbean, often near farm land.

Below, adult Saffron Finch, Pantanal, August.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • San Isidro Lodge, Ecuador, March 2011.

Bird name: Black Eared Hemispingus
Latin: Hemispingus melanotis
Other: Hemispingo orejinegro (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Hemispingus
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Bush-tanagers, Fawn-breasted Tanager

The Black-eared Hemispingus is another fast-moving, small tanager that is easily missed. Although pointed out to me quite a few times by the guide, I struggled to get any photos at all, until finally I saw a pair, foraging on relatively open ground, around some bamboo - a typical habitat. Wags tail left to right.

The Black-eared Hemispingus lives between 2200 and 3000m. Seen here at San Isidro Lodge, which is about 2300m.More photos...

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Bird name: Hooded Tanager
Latin: Nemosia pileata
Other: Cachaquito gigante, trinadora pechiblanca, frutero cabeza negra, f. de coronita (Es) • Saíra-de-chapéu-preto (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil to Venezuela and neighbours.
Similar:

I saw Hooded Tanagers quite frequently in mixed flocks around the lake at Regua in September.

The male Hooded Tanager (above) is black above, white below, with yellow irises, white lores, orange legs. The female (below) is grey and white, sometimes with orange colouring on chest etc.

At first sight Hooded Tanagers didn’t look like typical tanagers as they’re quite small with pointy bills.

Below, female Hooded Tanager, Regua, September.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Guango Lodge, Ecuador, March 2011.

Bird name: Capped Conebill
Latin: Conirostrum albifrons
Other: Picocono coronado (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Conebills
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Flowerpiercers, Bush-tanagers

The Capped Conebill is a small bird. Males are all blue, mostly dark blue, with bright blue highlights on the cap, shoulder etc. Females olive and blue-grey. Easily overlooked. In Ecuador found at 2000 - 2800m - seen here at Guango Lodge, 2700m.More photos...

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Bird name: Blue Backed Conebill
Latin: Conirostrum sitticolor
Other: Picocono dorsiazul (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Conebills
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

The Blue-backed Conebill is a small, attractive bird - I was frustrated not to get better shots. It’s a high altitude conebill, living above 2500m - these were seen near Guango Lodge, at 2800 m on the eastern slope in Ecuador.More photos...

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Bird name: Chestnut Vented Conebill
Latin: Conirostrum speciosum
Other: Figuinha-de-rabo-castanho (Br) • Picocono culicastaño (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Conebills
Range: South America, incl Brazil etc
Similar:

A couple of distant shots of Chestnut-vented Conebills. In certain areas, like the Regua ponds, they can be quite common, but they don’t stand out and I probably missed them often in mixed flocks with Hooded Tanagers etc. They are small fast moving and I was unable to get a good picture.

The chestnut vent under the tail is a good indicator for this bird.More photos...

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Bird name: Golden Chevroned Tanager
Latin: Thraupis ornata
Other: Sanhaçu-de-encontro-amarelo (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil: principally Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo
Similar:

The Golden-chevroned Tanager can look a little grey and muddy, depending on the individual, the angle and the light. Females and juveniles are certainly duller than adult males. Some are good-looking, bright and colourful birds.

The Golden-chevroned Tanager is basically a blue bird with a little yellow patch, or golden chevron, on the wing. It’s the only bird in the region with such a mark, so easy to identify. Females are paler than males, especially underneath. Some individuals have dusky lores, but others not so much.

The Golden-chevroned Tanager is endemic to a fairly small strip of the southeast coast of Brazil but is one of the most common tanagers around, so not hard to find.

Below, Golden-chevroned Tanager, Brazil
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Bird name: Ruby Crowned Tanager
Latin: Tachyphonus coronatus
Other: Tiê-preto (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
Similar: Shiny Cowbird, White-lined Tanager

The male Ruby-crowned Tanager is all black and thus not dissimilar in aspect to the Shiny Cowbird and others. It can show a little white on the shoulder (see below). Occasionally you can spot the small red crest, but usually this is not visible.

It’s more nervy in behaviour than the aforementioned cowbird and more likely to be seen taking turns at a fruit feeder with a female, and other tanagers, than walking around calmly on the ground or collecting in groups.

The female is light brown with streaked chest and neck. The lower half of bills of both seem to show an indication of the white patch which is characteristic of many tanagers, such as the Brazilian Tanager.

Below, adult female Ruby-Crowned Tanager visits fruit feeders, shows streaked chest
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Bird name: Brazilian Tanager
Latin: Ramphocelus bresilius
Other: Tiê-sangue (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil: Paraiba to Santa Catarina
Similar:

The male Brazilian Tanager is a very intense red. The above photo has 100% magenta saturation in Photoshop.

The male also has bright white patches on its lower bill which is otherwise black, and dark wings and tail. The female (below) is brown with a buff underside and red patch on rump and dark bill. The immature male (see further below) is like the female but with bright patches of red, especially on face, and white patch on black bill.

The female has no streaking on its chest, unlike the female Ruby-crowned Tanager. The former is also darker above than the latter. Both male and female Brazilian Tanagers have a slight overbite, where the upper bill is a bit longer than the lower.

The Brazilian Tanager is endemic to the southeast coast of Brazil, where it is fairly easy to find, and very easy to spot.

Below, adult female Brazilian Tanager.

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Bird name: Scarlet Browed Tanager
Latin: Heterospingus xanthopygius
Other: Tangara cejiescarlata (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Panama, Colombia, Ecuador.
Similar:

Difficult to see in this record shot, but the Scarlet-browed Tanager is mostly dark with red streak behind eye, red iris, yellow rump and should-streak. Female lacks head streak.

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Bird name: Silver Beaked Tanager
Latin: Ramphocelus carbo
Other: Sangre de toro apagado, toche negro (Es) • Tie-sangue (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyanas, Peru, Paraguay
Similar: Female Guira Tanager

The Silver-beaked Tanager is quite common over its range. It seemed to be the default tanager approaching Tena and into the Upper Napo region of Ecuador. Also the most common tanager in the Pantanal in August, where it was often seen beside rivers and in fruiting trees. Also seen in Parà.

The male Silver-beaked Tanager (above) is easy to identify - dark red with bright lower bill. It can look black in weak light.

Females (below) are browner - but still reddish - with less contrast on the bill. They look similar to female Brazilian Tanagers, but fortunately the two ranges do not overlap.More photos...

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Bird name: Yellow Backed Tanager
Latin: Hemithraupis flavicollis
Other: Pintasilgo de buche dorado (Es) • Saíra-galega (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyanas, Peru,
Similar: Female Guira Tanager

The male Yellow-backed Tanager (above) is a small tanager, black above, white below, with yellow throat, rump and lower face up to bill. The female (below) is plainer, yellow below and olive above.

Regua in September seemed a good place to see this bird - they visit the feeders and were frequently seen in mixed flocks near the lake.

There are quite a few subspecies, with slighty different colouring.More photos...

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Bird name: Scarlet and White Tanager
Latin: Chrysothlypis salmoni
Other: Tángara escarlatiblanca (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Colombia, Ecuador
Similar: Hepatic Tanager, Summer Tanager

Another unconfirmed record shot - this time of a possible Scarlet-and-white Tanager at the Mirador Rio Blanco in northwest Ecuador. Scarlet-and-white Tanagers do look similar to this - red body with black edging to wings and white belly - but from this angle Summer Tanager or Hepatic Tanager are also both possible.

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Bird name: Plushcap
Latin: Catamblyrhynchus diadema
Other: Cabecipeludo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Similar:

A couple of record shots of a Plushcap I saw on the Ecoruta northwest of Quito.

The Plushcap is an unusual bird, at one taxonomical extreme of the Thraupidae family. It lives at high altitude, between 1600 and 3500m, has stiff crown feathers and usually lives near Chusquea bamboo.More photos...

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Bird name: Summer Tanager
Latin: Piranga rubra
Other: Tángara roja migratoria (Es) • Sanhaçu-vermelho, sanhaçu-verão (Pt)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers - now Cardinalidae
Range: USA, Mexico, Central America, N South America, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
Similar: Hepatic Tanager

Summer Tanagers look very similar to Hepatic Tanagers, so the identity of two birds pictured here should be treated with caution.

The bird above is identified as a migrant male Summer Tanager on location - it was seen at San Isidro Lodge (2300m) in March. San Isidro doesn’t list Hepatic as occuring there. Otherwise it might have been taken for a Hepatic Tanager, since it has a dark bill, slightly greyish lores and a carmine, not orange, tint to the bright red hue.

The bird below was, I believe, a migrant male Summer Tanager at the Milpe Reserve, 1600m?, in northwest Ecuador. It has the characteristic pale bill of the Summer Tanager, pale lores and slightly orange-red hue.

Female Summer Tanagers are olive-yellow.

Below, presumed male Summer Tanager, Milpe, Ecuador, March 2011.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Golden Hooded Tanager
Latin: Tangara larvata
Other: Tangara capuchidorada, tangara cabecipinta (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: S Mexico to Ecuador
Similar:

The Golden Hooded Tanager was one of the first birds I saw in Panama in Cerro Azul, then more frequently in El Valle.

The golden hood makes this bird pretty unmistakeable. Good-looking bird!

Also seen at the Silanche Reserve in northwest Ecuador - western slope.

Below: Golden-hooded Tanager, Panama
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Itatiaia, RJ • November 2009

Bird name: Magpie Tanager
Latin: Cissopis leverianus
Other: Moriche blanco, frutero overo, tangará urraca (Es) • Tietinga (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Widespread South America
Similar:

There’s no mistaking the Magpie Tanager, with its strong black and white markings, which are reminiscent of the European Magpie, its large size, long tail and bright yellow irises. Its distribution is split into two parts, one comprising southeastern Brazil.

Also seen in Ecuador near Tena and the eastern lowlands.More photos...

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Bird name: Black Goggled Tanager
Latin: Trichothraupis melanops
Other: Frutero de anteojos negros, frutero corona amarilla (Es) • Tiê-de-topete (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina - Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

The Black-goggled Tanager has yellowish buff underparts, dark brown-black upperside, especially black around the eyes, yellow crest sometimes visible. The female has less pronounced markings. Lives in southern half of Brazil and neighbouring countries.

Below, probably female Black-googled Tanager
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Bird name: Red Necked Tanager
Latin: Tangara cyanocephala
Other: Saíra-militar (Br) • Tángara de cuello rojo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
Similar:

The Red-necked Tanager is easy to identify in the adult form by its red neck. It also has a blue cap, green body, with some yellow on wing and black on back and on face around bill. The female, directly below, has less yellow on wing, less black on back and a duller, more orangey neck.

The juvenile Red-necked Tanager, seen above feeding from an adult male, and more examples below in “more photos”, is predominantly green with tell-tale flecks of adult colour, such as red neck and blue cap, with black face.

The Red-necked Tanager is endemic to the south-east Atlantic Rainforest corridor in Brazil, with another pocket in the north-east of the country, with a paler blue head and blue fleck on tail.

Below, female Red-necked Tanager
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Bird name: Swallow Tanager
Latin: Tersina viridis
Other: Azulejo golondrina, tángara golondrina, tersina/frutero golondrina (Es) • Saí-andorinha (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Panama to Argentina, incl Brazil
Similar:

The male Swallow Tanager is distinguishable by its barred flank, black mask, bright blue colour (above). Females are green and yellow (see below).

The Swallow Tanager can be found throughout much of Brazil and neighbouring countries. This group were seen north of Rio in open country.More photos...

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Bird name: Blue and Black Tanager
Latin: Tangara vassorii
Other: Tangara azulinegra (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Masked Flowerpiercer

The Blue-and-black Tanager is found at quite high altitudes, generally above 2000m. I saw these birds at Guango Lodge on the eastern slope of the Andes in Ecuador at about 2700m.

No other tanager like it in Ecuador, but similar colours to the Masked Flowerpiercer, which has a very different bill.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Milpe Reserve, Ecuador, March 2011

Bird name: Rufous Throated Tanager
Latin: Tangara rufigula
Other: Tangara golirrufa (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Colombia, Ecuador
Similar: Beryl-spangled Tanager

A record shot of a Rufous-throated Tanager in Milpe; you can just make out the rufous throat in the photo. Found on the western slope in northern Ecuador.

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Rio Azul Lodge, Brazil 2011

Bird name: Red Shouldered Tanager
Latin: Tachyphonus phoenicius
Other: Frutero de hombros rojos (Es) • Tem-tem-de-dragona-vermelha (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Amazonia - Brazil around Para state, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyanas
Similar: White-lined Tanager, Ruby-crowned Tanager

The male Red-shouldered Tanager is an entirely black bird - the red shoulder is generally not visible. This bird was identified on range - the only one of several similar black tanagers to inhabit this area of southern Para. The female is quite different - light underparts.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Milpe, Ecuador, March 2011

Bird name: Guira Tanager
Latin: Hemithraupis guira
Other: Pintasilgo de buche negro, güira (Es) • Saíra-de-papo-preto (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil to Venezuela and neighbours
Similar: Female with Yellow-backed Tanager

The Guira Tanager is apparently widespread throughout South America in lowland and degraded forest. I’ve only seen them a couple of times - in Ecuador in Mindo and at Milpe.

The adult male Guira Tanager has a yellow pointed bill, brown or black mask, orange throat, whitish underparts, olive upperparts, orange rump. The female lacks the orange and black markings.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Milpe, Ecuador, March 2011

Bird name: Ochre Breasted Tanager
Latin: Chlorothraupis stolzmanni
Other: Tangara pechiocrácea (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Colombia, Ecuador western slope
Similar: Dusky Bush Tanager, other female tanagers

The Ochre-breasted Tanager is fairly nondescript, and can be difficult to identify. It has a heavy, dark bill and generally ochre colouring elsewhere, slightly warmer colours below and darker above, and grey irises.

See below for same bird without flash.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Serra dos Tucanos, Brazil • 2011

Bird name: Azure Shouldered Tanager
Latin: Tangara cyanoptera
Other: Sanhaçu-de-encontro-azul (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: SE Brazil - Atlantic forest
Similar: Sayaca Tanager

The Azure-shouldered Tanager is very similar to the Sayaca Tanager, but in practice quite easy to differentiate. It has dusky lores (Sayaca doesn’t) and a bright blue shoulder mark. There is no overlap with Blue-grey Tanager.

Serra dos Tucanos Lodge north of Rio was a good place to see the Azure-shouldered Tanager - it visits the fruit feeders.More photos...

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Bird name: Flame Faced Tanager
Latin: Tangara parzudakii
Other: Tangara cariflama (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Similar:

I saw Flame-faced Tanagers on several occasions at the Santa Lucia Reserve, Ecuador, but there often in deep mist. Clearer views at the Milpe Reserve, where they also visited the feeders.

On the eastern slope, also seen at San Isidro, where the nominal subspecies Tangara parzudakii parzudakii is found, which is more brightly coloured - record shot further below.

Above and directly below, the western subspecies Tangara parzudakii lunigera which has less colour in the cheeks.

Below, a Flame-faced Tanager feeding at the Santa Lucia Reserve in northern Ecuador.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Brazil • 2011

Bird name: Black Faced Tanager
Latin: Schistochlamys melanopis
Other: Sanhaçu-de-coleira (Br) • Frutero cara negra, chovy estero, pizarrita sabanera (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyanas, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay
Similar:

The Black-faced Tanager lives in dry habitats - savanna, cerrado etc. These were seen in Chapada das Guimaraes.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador • 2011

Bird name: Blue Necked Tanager
Latin: Tangara cyanicollis
Other: Tangara capuchiazul (Es) • Saíra-de-cabeça-azul (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Ecuador, …
Similar:

Blue-necked Tanagers have bright blue heads, with black mask, dark bodies, and orange on shoulder. Underfeathers are actually blue and green but in normal lighting the body looks blackish.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Para, Brazil, September

Bird name: Flame Crested Tanager
Latin: Tachyphonus cristatus
Other: Tiê-galo (Br) • Frutero de cresta rojiza, parlotero crestado, tangara crestiflama (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyanas, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia
Similar:

The Flame-crested Tanager showing its main markings: a red crest, generally black body and buff patch on chin. Also white shoulder. Female is brownish.

The Flame-crested Tanager lives in two distinct populations, one on the southeast coast of Brazil - at Regua, for example - the other further northwest - eg at Rio Azul Lodge.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Brazil • 2011

Bird name: Green and Gold Tanager
Latin: Tangara schrankii
Other: Tangará carinegra, tangara verdidorada (Es) • Saíra-ouro (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Amazonia - Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Similar:

I only glimpsed Green-and-gold Tanagers a couple of times, at the Rio Azul Lodge, in Para, Brazil.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador • 2011

Bird name: Grey and Gold Tanager
Latin: Tangara palmeri
Other: Gray-and-gold Tanager (US) • Tangara doradigris (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Similar:

A grey-and-gold Tanager from a difficult angle. I only saw this bird at Silanche Reserve in Ecuador, in the northwest of the country.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador • 2011

Bird name: Beryl Spangled Tanager
Latin: Tangara nigroviridis
Other: Tangara mariposa (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

Probably the most frequently seen of all tanagers on my recent trip to Ecuador - often in mixed flocks, but very difficult to photograph - it’s small and fast moving and keeps its distance.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador • 2011

Bird name: Metallic Green Tanager
Latin: Tangara labradorides
Other: Tangara verdimetallica (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Colombia, Ecuador, …
Similar:

Metallic-green Tanager was another frequently glimpsed tanager, hard to photograph. Found mid-altitude in the northwest of Ecuador.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Brazil • 2011

Bird name: Fulvous Crested Tanager
Latin: Tachyphonus surinamus
Other: Tem-tem-de-topete-ferrgíneo (Br) • Tangara crestifulva (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Amazonia - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyanas, Peru, Venezuela
Similar:

A couple of record shots of the Fulvous-crested Tanager at Rio Azul Lodge. A blackish tanager with brown patches on shoulders and sides.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, El Valle, May 2010

Bird name: Dusky Faced Tanager
Latin: Mitrospingus cassinii
Other: Tangara carinegruzca (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Similar:

A blurry record shot of a Dusky-faced Tanager in El Valle, Panama.

And another blurry record from Silanche Reserve, Ecuador.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Itatiaia, Ubatuba • November 2009

Bird name: Green Headed Tanager
Latin: Tangara seledon
Other: Saíra-sete-cores (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Southeast Brazil - Atlantic Rainforest
Similar: Seven-colored Tanager

The colourful Green Headed Tanager is a frequent visitor to bird tables in the Atlantic Rainforest (Mata Atlantica) region.

Although the Green-headed Tanager is called Saíra-sete-cores in Portuguese, the English-named “Seven Colored Tanager” is a different bird found in the northeast of Brazil:Tangara fastuosa - Pintor-verdadeiro.

The immature Green Headed Tanager, pictured further below, is predominantly yellow and green.

Below, Green-headed Tanager, Serra dos Tucanos.


Below, juvenile Green Headed Tanager, is predominantly yellow and green.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, March.

Bird name: Saffron Crowned Tanager
Latin: Tangara xanthocephala
Other: Tángara coronada (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Golden-eared Tanager, Flame-faced Tanager

Another very beautiful design on the Saffron-crowned Tanager, which lives in montane forests from 1200 to 2400m. I saw these birds at the San Isidro Lodge on the east slope of the Andes, in Ecuador.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Brazil, March.

Bird name: Shrike Like Tanager
Latin: Neothraupis fasciata
Other: White-banded Tanager (old) • Cigarra-do-tempo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: NE Paraguay, NE Bolivia, Brazil cerrado
Similar: White-rumped Tanager, Black-faced Tanager

The Shrike-like Tanager adult (below) is grey and white with black face. White wing band. Juveniles (above and further below) are browner. Shrike-like Tanagers were one of the most common tanagers in the very dry cerrado, which was drier than the Sahara when I visited, at Chapada das Guimaraes.

Below, an adult Shrike-like Tanager in Chapada das Guimaraes, Brazil, August.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, March.

Bird name: Grass Green Tanager
Latin: Chlorornis riefferii
Other: Clorornis patirrojo, tángara hierba verde, tángara verdirroja, tángara carirroja (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

Incredibly intense green on the Grass Green Tanager. Contrasted with red face, bill, legs and crissum - a stunning colour scheme. I saw these in cloud forest near Bellavista and San Isidro in Ecuador. These large tanagers live at high altitudes in the Andes - 1500 to 3300m. I saw birds in the middle of that range.

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Bird name: White Rumped Tanager
Latin: Cypsnagra hirundinacea
Other: Bandoleta (Es)(Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Panama
Similar: Shrike-like Tanager juvenile

The White-rumped Tanager was seen on several occasions in cerrado at Chapada das Guimaraes, Brazil.

The adult (above) White-rumped Tanager has a dark orange throat, is light below, dark above, with two white wing marks and white rump. The juvenile (below) is browner, with lighter throat and more colour.

Eats insects mostly.

Below, juvenile White Rumped Tanager, Chapada das Guimaraes, Brazil
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, March.

Bird name: Golden Tanager
Latin: Tangara arthus
Other: Tángara dorada (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Blackburnian Warbler (if glimpsed)

The Golden Tanager is not uncommon in Ecuador in mid-altitude montane habitats. Seen in most locations, usually at least one in a mixed flock. Very easy to see - a bright light in cloud forest canopy. But Golden Tanagers are small and fast moving, and often stick to tree tops, so getting a good photo was not easy. Unmistakeable markings - usually the only other possibility for an orange flash is Blackburnian Warbler (which has a black head)

Below, Golden Tanager in Mindo, Ecuador.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Yanacocha, Ecuador, March.

Bird name: Golden Crowned Tanager
Latin: Iridosornis rufivertex
Other: Frutero cabecidorado (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Similar:

Intense colours in this high-altitude Golden Crowned Tanager (usually 2500-3300m), which I saw on the Yanacocha trail (3500m). Great bird - the only one of its kind I saw in Ecuador.

Below, Golden Crowned Tanager - Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Serra dos Tucanos Lodge, September

Bird name: Fawn Breasted Tanager
Latin: Pipraeidea melanonota
Other: Saíra viúva (Br) • Tangara pechianteada (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay; and SE S America
Similar:

The Fawn-breasted Tanager is buff or orange below with blue upper half and red irises. Found in the Andes and in montane habitats in southern Brazil and bordering countries.

I saw Fawn-breasted Tanagers in Mindo and San Isidro Lodge in Ecuador and at Serra dos Tucanos Lodge in Brazil.

The male Fawn-breasted Tanager has deeper colours than the female and the Brazilian Fawn-breasted Tanager (above, male) apparently had richer colours than the Ecuadorian birds (below).

Below, Fawn Breasted Tanager, Ecuador, March.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Serra dos Tucanos Lodge, September

Bird name: Burnished Buff Tanager
Latin: Tangara cayana
Other: Saíra amarela (Br) • Tangara cayana, pechinegro (Es) • Rufous-crowned Tanager
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Guianas, Venezuela, E Colombia, Paraguay, NE Argentina, Brazil
Similar:

The Burnished Buff Tanager male has a buff body, with black markings below and on face, and turquoise wings. The female (see next page) has less black.

The Burnished Buff Tanager is found in Brazil, to some extent neighbouring countries, and there is a separate population in northern South America. The subspecies in SE Brazil, where these photos were taken, is Tangara cayana flava.

Very subtle colours.

Below, male Burnished Buff Tanager - with flash, Serra do Tucanos Lodge, Brazil


Below, male Burnished Buff Tanager - ssp flava, Ubatuba.

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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, March

Bird name: Blue Winged Mountain Tanager
Latin: Anisognathus somptuosus
Other: Tángara primavera, cachaquito primavera, tangara montana aliazul (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Black-chinned Mountain-tanager

Blue-winged Mountain Tanagers could be seen at various places near Mindo, as well at San Isidro Lodge.

Blue-winged Mountain Tanagers have more blue on wings than Black-chinned Mountain-tanagers and have black backs, vs olive shoulders for the latter. They have a large yellow stripe on their head.

Below, Blue-winged Mountain-tanager, Mindo.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, March

Bird name: Black Chinned Mountain Tanager
Latin: Anisognathus notabilis
Other: tangara montana barbinegra (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Colombia, Ecuador
Similar: Blue-winged Mountain-tanager

Black-chinned Mountain-tanagers could be seen alongside Blue-winged Mountain-tanagers at the Paz de las Aves feeders.

Black-chinned Mountain-tanagers have less blue on the wing than Blue-winged, more black below the chin and olive top of back vs black back for Blue-winged.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, March

Bird name: Scarlet Bellied Mountain Tanager
Latin: Anisognathus igniventris
Other: Tangara montana ventriescarlata (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

The Scarlet Bellied Mountain Tanager is a very eye-catching bird - I only saw one pair at Yanacocha at 3500m, feeding on the berries below. Their range descends to 1500m.
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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Serra dos Tucanos Lodge, September

Bird name: Hooded Mountain Tanager
Latin: Buthraupis montana
Other: Tangara montaña encapuchada (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

I saw this Hooded Mountain-tanager near the Bellavista Lodge grounds in Ecuador. Found at quite high altitudes - 2000 to 3200 m. Also seen at San Isidro Lodge on the eastern slope of the Andes.

The Hooded Mountain-tanager has red irises and a black head. A large tanager.More photos...

Copyright: DK/monacoeye • Peru • April 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Moustached Flowerpiercer
Latin: Diglossa mystacalis
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Flowerpiercers
Range: Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

Thanks to Dirk for this photo of a Moustached Flowerpiercer, taken on the Inca Trail, Peru.

Copyright: monacoeye • Yanacocha, Ecuador • Feb 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Masked Flowerpiercer
Latin: Diglossa cyanea
Other: Pinchaflor enmascarado (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Flowerpiercers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Bluish Flowerpiercer, Indigo Flowerpiercer

Beautiful rich colours on these fast-moving Masked Flowerpiercers. Large black mask and red eye with blue body. Females duller. Seen in several locations, will visit nectar feeders. The best location, where there were large numbers feeding, was at the end of the Yanacocha trail - 3800 m.

If you don’t get a good view, can be confused with Bluish Flowerpiercer.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Santa Lucia, Ecuador • Feb 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: White Sided Flowerpiercer
Latin: Diglossa albilatera
Other: Pinchaflor flanciblanco (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Flowerpiercers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Similar: Black Flowerpiercer

Above a female White-sided Flowerpiercer, which is light brown with a fleck of white on its side just visible behind the bend of the wing. The male, below, is black, with the same white fleck.

White-sided Flowerpiercers were easy to see at the Santa Lucia Reserve (1800m), fog and rain notwithstanding, as they visited a flowering bush outside the lodge every day I was there. I also saw males at San Isidro.

Below, male White-sided Flowerpiercer - uses hooked bill to pierce the base of flowers.
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Copyright: monacoeye • Yanacocha, Ecuador • Feb 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Glossy Flowerpiercer
Latin: Diglossa lafresnayii
Other: Pinchaflor satinado (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Flowerpiercers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Similar: Black Flowerpiercer, White-sided Flowerpiercer

The Glossy Flowerpiercer is all black, with white patch on shoulder and hooked bill-tip. Only confusion in Ecuador could be White-sided Flowerpiercer, whose white patch is lower down, under the wing.

Seen in good numbers at the feeders at the end of the Yanacocha trail at 3800 m altitude.
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Copyright: monacoeye • Yanacocha, Ecuador • Feb 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Black Flowerpiercer
Latin: Diglossa humeralis
Other: Pinchaflor negro (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Flowerpiercers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Similar: White-sided Flowerpiercer, Glossy Flowerpiercer

This seems likely to have been a Black Flowerpiercer, seen at San Isidro Lodge. Black Flowerpiercers are all black, with hooked bill tip, to pierce the base of flowers and reach the nectar. So you need a good view of the side to eliminate White-sided and Glossy Flowerpiercers.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Yanacocha, Ecuador • Feb 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Bluish Flowerpiercer
Latin: Diglossa caerulescens
Other: Pinchaflor azulado (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Flowerpiercers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar: Masked Flowerpiercer, Indigo Flowerpiercer

Record shots of (probable) Bluish Flowerpiercer at San Isidro Lodge, Ecuador. Bill is smaller than Masked, mask is smaller and does not extend behind eye. Iris also red. More blue-grey than bright blue.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Nanegal, Ecuador • Mar 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: White Winged Tanager
Latin: Piranga leucoptera
Other: Piranga aliblanca (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers - now Cardinalidae
Range: E Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Similar:

This White-winged Tanager was one of the first birds I saw in Ecuador, in Nanegal.

The male White-winged Tanager is a red bird with two white wingbars on a dark wing. The female is yellow, also with two wingbars.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, April 2010

Bird name: Palm Tanager
Latin: Thraupis palmarum
Other: Sanhaçu-do-coqueiro (Br) • Tangara (Es), Azulejo de palmeras
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Guatemala to Paraguay & S Brazil
Similar: Olive-green, Sayaca Tanager (Brazil), Plain Tanager (Panama)

The Palm Tanager is one of the duller looking tanagers, in Brazil mostly uniform olive-green, with lighter patches on wing and darker tips, head lighter and greener, with only a black iris and bill which stand out.

In Panama, at least one pair roosted in the eves of the Canopy Tower. The Panama Palm Tanager (above) has brown wing tips and tail and is far less uniform and green than its Brazilian counterpart (lowest photo, next page). On close examination there was an almost purplish sheen to some of the back and chest of the birds in Panama.

In Brazil, the Olive-green tanager is yellower below, with distinct upper and lower halves, and fluffier. The Sayaca Tanager is obviously blue, not green, but from below in some lights, when both are pale can look similar - the same goes for Golden-chevroned Tanager, which can also look similar from below.

The Palm Tanager is fairly common throughout most of the northern half of South America and extending into Central America and the Caribbean. Found near houses as well as other areas.

Directly below, a Palm Tanager in Panama.


Below, a Palm Tanager in Ubatuba, Brazil, Nov 2009. Brazilian Palm Tanagers were a uniform greenish colour and lacked the brown wing of the Panama variety.
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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Slaty Flowerpiercer
Latin: Diglossa plumbea
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Flowerpiercers
Range: Costa Rica and western Panama
Similar:

The Slaty Flowerpiercer has a uniquely shaped bill adapted to its special method of feeding. The lower half of the bill is upturned and the upper bill has a small downturned hook at the tip. Slaty Flowerpiercers use this to puncture the base of flowers and access the nectar.

The male is a small dark grey bird and the female brownish. If you can see the bill there can be no doubt as to the identification in Panama. Slaty Flowerpiercers were common among the garden flowers of Los Quetzales lodge.


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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Slaty Finch
Latin: Haplospiza rustica
Other: Gorrión pizarra (Es), Pizarra, Pinzón pizarroso (Mex)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range: S Mexico to Venezuela, Bolivia
Similar:

The Slaty Finch is a little shy but I saw it coming to eat seed a couple of times near Cerro Punta, once at the Finca Dracula orchid farm seed feeder below and once when we put out some seed at Los Quetzales cabin number 8. The guide said that Slaty Finches were usually difficult to see.

The Slaty Finch is an all-grey bird found in the highlands.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Yellow Faced Grassquit
Latin: Tiaris olivaceus
Other: Semillerito cariamarillo, Tomeguín de la tierra, viudito (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters, Grassquits
Range: Greater Antilles, E Mexico to Venezuela
Similar:

The male Yellow-faced Grassquit is quickly recognised by its distinctive face pattern, which almost resembles a nuclear hazard sign when viewed face on, with three yellow marks - two above the eyes and one below the chin. The female, directly below, is greyer with only a hint of the same pattern.

We saw Yellow-faced Grassquits frequently in Panama, in diverse habitats.


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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Variable Seedeater
Latin: Sporophila corvina
Other: Split from S. americana • Semillerito aurito (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range: E Mexico to Peru
Similar: Female Yellow-bellied Seedeater, Lesser Seed-Finch

The Variable Seedeaters was seen in many locations in Panama. The male, above, is black with white underparts and white collar. The female, below, is buffy with dark bill, but ID should probably be treated with caution.

Below, probable female Variable Seedeater.
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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Crimson Backed Tanager
Latin: Ramphocelus dimidiatus
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
Similar: Ant tanagers

The Crimson-backed Tanager was one of the most common tanagers in central Panama - seen at feeders, around houses and fairly open forested areas.

Crimson-backed Tanagers are basically red birds with dark wings, but as there are quite a few red tanagers, with similar names, they can be surprisingly difficult to ID to the uninitiated.

Males have a characteristic partly white lower bill, whereas females’ bills are fairly uniform dark. Females are on the whole duller and browner.

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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, El Valle, May 2010

Bird name: Hepatic Tanager
Latin: Piranga hepatica
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers - now Cardinalidae
Range: W USA to Central America, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
Similar: Female White-lined Tanager, Olive Tanager

The female Hepatic Tanager is yellow and male, below, is red - greyish around eye. I relied on the guide for identification of these.

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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Cherrie's Tanager
Latin: Ramphocelus costaricensis
Other: Scarlet-rumped Tanager • Tangara grupirroja (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: W Costa Rica, W Panama?
Similar: Passerini’s Tanager

These Cherrie’s Tanagers were seen in Chiriqui, western Panama. The male is black with a bright red rump and female is yellowish underneath with orange chest and rump and olive brown wings and tail.

They were often referred to as Scarlet-rumped Tanagers (the old name) which also includes Passerini’s Tanager.


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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, April, May 2010

Bird name: Blue Grey Tanager
Latin: Thraupis episcopus
Other: Blue-Gray Tanager (US) • Tangara azulada, azulejo de jardín (Es), sanhaço-da-amazônia (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: S Mexico to Bolivia, Amazonia
Similar: Palm Tanager

The Blue-grey Tanager is one of the most common and omnipresent garden tanagers in Panama. It is pale grey with blue on wings tail and back. The shade of blue varies from cobalt to turquoise. Seen from below the Blue-gray Tanager can look very white, like other Thraupis tanagers.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Flame Colored Tanager
Latin: Piranga bidentata
Other: Flame-coloured Tanager (UK) • Quitrique de espalda rayada (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers - now Cardinalidae
Range: W Mexico to Panama
Similar: White-winged Tanager

My taxi driver in Cerro Punta, who quickly got the bird-watching bug, spotted the above Flame-colored Tanager on the windowsill of a house we were passing. I was a little nervous walking into a stranger’s front garden and my prevarication probably missed me a really good shot.

The male Flame-colored Tanager is a fantastically bright orange-red bird. The female is yellow not red, but still has the white wingbars. Both male and female have a dark shadow behind the eye - this area is darker in the similar White-winged Tanager.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Metropolitan Park, April 2010

Bird name: White Shouldered Tanager
Latin: Tachyphonus luctuosus
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Amazonia
Similar: Grey Headed Tanager

Pictured here are male White-shouldered Tanagers, which are black with white shoulders. Females have grey heads, yellow underparts and olive upperparts. We saw these at the top of the Metropolitan Park in Panama City.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Pipeline Rd, April 2010

Bird name: Grey Headed Tanager
Latin: Eucometis penicillata
Other: Gray-headed Tanager (US) • Tangara cabecigrís (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: SE Mexico to SC Brazil & N Paraguay
Similar: Female White-shouldered Tanager

The Grey-headed Tanager has a grey head and bright yellow underparts. Olive green above. This one was seen on Pipeline Road.

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: White Lined Tanager
Latin: Tachyphonus rufus
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Costa Rica, Panama to NE Argentina
Similar: Cinnamon Becard, White-shouldered Tanager

We saw the White-lined Tanager on the Pipeline Road and in El Valle.

The male White-lined Tanager, above, is predominantly black with white usually only visible under wings in flight - just a hint visible on the edge of the closed wing. The female, below, is ruddy brown above, cinnamon below.

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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, April 2010

Bird name: Red Throated Ant Tanager
Latin: Habia fuscicauda
Other: Tangara rojisucia fuscicauda, Tangara hormiguera gorjirroja (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Mexico to Colombia
Similar: Red Crowned Ant Tanager

The male Red-throated Ant Tanager is red-brown with brighter red throat and red crown. The female, below, is olive-brown with brighter yellow throat and yellow crown. I relied on the guide’s ID for these.

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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, El Valle, May 2010

Bird name: Red Crowned Ant Tanager
Latin: Habia rubica
Other: Tangara rojisucia rúbica, Tangara hormiguera coronirroja (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Widespread Latin America
Similar: Red-throated Ant Tanager

This pair of Red-crowned Ant Tanager visited the fruit feeder at Canopy Lodge, Panama, in April.

The male Red-crowned Ant Tanager is chestnut coloured with a red crown barely visible in the above photo. The female, below, is olive green. There are several olive-green tanagers, so it helped that they arrived together. Both male and females should have a dark line around their crests, which will distinguish them from the similar Red-throated Ant Tanager, but I relied on the guide’s identification for these.

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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, El Valle, May 2010

Bird name: Black and Yellow Tanager
Latin: Chrysothlypis chrysomelas
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Costa Rica and Panama
Similar: Red-throated Ant Tanager

A possible Black-and-yellow Tanager seen in Chiriqui…

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, El Valle, May 2010

Bird name: Rosy Thrush Tanager
Latin: Rhodinocichla rosea
Other: Tangara pechirrosada, Tangara cuitlacoche (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: W Mexico to Venezuela
Similar:

These Rosy-thrush Tanagers were difficult to photograph - distant and in dark forest.

The male Rosy-thrush Tanager, above, is a superb shade of crimson underneath and black above, the female is more orange below. Both have a white stripe above the eye.

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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, El Valle, May 2010

Bird name: Tawny Crested Tanager
Latin: Tachyphonus delatrii
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Similar: Male White-shouldered Tanager

Record shots of the Tawny-crested Tanager, female above, male below. The female is dark brown and the male is black with orange crest.

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Silver Throated Tanager
Latin: Tangara icterocephala
Other: Tangara garganta de plata (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Similar:

The Silver-throated Tanager is another beautiful tanager. Quite a small bird, and I didn’t see that many of them until I arrived at Los Quetzales in the Chiriqui western highlands of Panama, where they were attracted by the red berries of this fruiting tree.

The Silver-throated Tanager is mostly yellow with green and black markings on back, and distinctive whitish throat, which can look pale turquoise with flash. Throat bordered above with black line.

Also seen at El Monte Lodge, Mindo, northwest Ecuador.

Below, Silver-throated Tanager feeding on berries, Chiriqui, Panama, May.
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Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Chiriqui, May 2010

Bird name: Speckled Tanager
Latin: Tangara guttata
Other:
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Costa Rica to N, NW Brazil
Similar:

The Speckled Tanager is a great looking tanager, but stayed in the shade when we saw it at Finca Hartmann in western Panama, so the colours are a little muted in the photo.

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Canopy Tower, Apr 2010

Bird name: Scarlet Tanager
Latin: Piranga olivacea
Other: Tángara rojinegra migratoria (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers - now Cardinalidae
Range: Breeds in North America, migrates to western Amazonia
Similar:

We saw this Scarlet Tanager from the observation tower of the Canopy Tower in central Panama. Presumably migrating, in late April. The female is yellow olive.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Panama, Canopy Tower, April 2010

Bird name: Plain Colored Tanager
Latin: Tangara inornata
Other: Plain-coloured Tanager (UK) •
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range: Costa Rica, Panama, northern Colombia
Similar: Palm Tanager

The Plain-colored Tanager is aptly named. It is a small tanager with not much in the way of colour except for a small patch of bright blue on each shoulder - which helps differentiate it from the Palm Tanager, which is also larger. They regularly visited the fruiting Cecropia tree beside the Canopy Tower.

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Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ubatuba & Itaiaia November 2009

Bird name: Double Collared Seedeater
Latin: Sporophila caerulescens
Other: Coleirinho (Br) • Corbatita común (Es), Corbatita doble collar
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range:
Similar:

The Double-collared Seedeater is found in many habitats. It has a wide range covering much of Brazil and neighbouring countries. It looks for grass seeds and can be seen near human habitation.

The Double-collared Seedeater male is quickly recognised by its black chin and black collar which form its “double collar”. The female is plain light brown and lacks chest stripes, which distinguishes it from the Blue-black Grassquit female. There are many similar looking females though, so the one below is only presumed to be a Double-collared Seedeater from its proximity with a male.


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Photo copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Itatiaia November 2009

Bird name: Olive Green Tanager
Latin: Orthogonys chloricterus
Other: Catirumbava (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers

The Olive Green Tanager is another tanager found only on the southeast coast of Brazil, generally above 600m. It is a frequent visitor to fruit feeders in Itatiaia.

The Olive-green Tanager is entirely yellowish-green underneath and olive-green above, with some dark marks, and a black bill and iris. It is a medium-sized bird, significantly larger than the Green-headed Tanager in the company of which it is often seen.

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Photo copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Itatiaia November 2009

Bird name: Sayaca Tanager
Latin: Thraupis sayaca
Other: Sanhaçu-cinzento (Br) • Celestino común (Es), Celestón
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers

The Sayaca Tanager is one of the most common tanagers within its range, often visiting fruit feeders. It is found in most of Brazil south of the Amazon, where it is replaced by the Blue-gray Tanager, and in neighbouring countries.

The Sayaca Tanager is blue and grey in colour. From the underside it can look very plain - similar to the Palm Tanager. Unlike the Azure-shouldered Tanager it does not have dusky lores.

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Photo copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Itatiaia, RJ • November 2009

Bird name: Gilt Edged Tanager
Latin: Tangara cyanoventris
Other: Saí-andorinha (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers

Here’s another tanager barely glimpsed on the road to Hotel Simon, in Itatiaia. It flew into a distant palm tree.

Still, you can just make out its distinguishing features - golden hood with black eye and beak and surrounding area. Body blue-green-yellow with black showing through.

The Gilt-edged Tanager is endemic to this region, only found in the coastal area near Rio and Sao Paulo.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Lagoa do Peixe • November 2009

Bird name: Grassland Yellow Finch
Latin: Sicalis luteola
Other: Misto Yellow Finch • Sicalis luteola luteiventris
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range:
Similar:

The Misto Yellow-Finch is a little hard to identify because of confusion with the Saffron Finch. Distinguishing features seem to be its lack of saffron colouring, and lack of stripes on breast in female and juvenile forms.

The Misto Yellow-finch is also regarded as a separate species by some. Like the Saffron Finch it is now placed in the Tanager family rather than with the Buntings.More photos...

Photo: monacoeye • Mostardas, RS, Brazil • November 2009

Bird name: Blue and Yellow Tanager
Latin: Thraupis bonariensis
Other: Sanhaçu-papa-laranja (Br)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers
Range:
Similar:

The Blue-and-yellow Tanager is found in parts of most South American countries including the southern states of Brazil.

The Blue-and-yellow Tanager has yellow-orange underparts, blue hood with black around the eyes and beak, black back and blue upperside of wings.More photos...

Photo copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Lagoa do Peixe • November 2009

Bird name: Diademed Tanager
Latin: Stephanophorus diadematus
Other: Sanhaçu-frade (Br) • Cardenal azul (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers

The Diademed Tanager in this photo was identified by the small red crest which is just visible. It should also have a white crown and bluish plumage. It is found in southern Brazil and neighbouring countries.More photos...

227 Thraupidae - Tanagers, Hemispingus, Mountain Tanagers, Dacnises, Honeycreepers, Conebills, Flowerpiercers, Seedeaters, Seed Finches, Yellow Finches, Sierra Finches, etc - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Orchesticus abeillei - Brown Tanager - SE Brazil

Schistochlamys ruficapillus - Cinnamon Tanager - E, C Brazil
Schistochlamys melanopis - Black-faced Tanager - N, C, E South America

Cissopis leverianus - Magpie Tanager - N, W Amazonia, SC South America

Conothraupis speculigera - Black-and-white Tanager - Ecuador, Peru
Conothraupis mesoleuca - Cone-billed Tanager - WC Brazil

Lamprospiza melanoleuca - Red-billed Pied Tanager - Amazonia

Compsothraupis loricata - Scarlet-throated Tanager - E Brazil

Sericossypha albocristata - White-capped Tanager - Venezuela to Peru

Nemosia pileata - Hooded Tanager - Widespread South America
Nemosia rourei - Cherry-throated Tanager - SE Brazil

Creurgops verticalis - Rufous-crested Tanager - Venezuela to Peru
Creurgops dentatus - Slaty Tanager - Peru, Bolivia

Mitrospingus cassinii - Dusky-faced Tanager - Costa Rica to Ecuador
Mitrospingus oleagineus - Olive-backed Tanager - Tepuis

Chlorothraupis tanager-grosbeaks are Cardinalidae (not tanagers/Thraupidae)
Chlorothraupis carmioli - Carmiol's Tanager - Nicaragua to Panama
Chlorothraupis frenata - Olive Tanager - W Amazonia - Split from C. carmioli
Chlorothraupis olivacea - Lemon-spectacled Tanager - Panama to Ecuador
Chlorothraupis stolzmanni - Ochre-breasted Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador

Orthogonys chloricterus - Olive-green Tanager - SE Brazil

Hemispingus atropileus - Black-capped Hemispingus - Venezuela to Ecuador
Hemispingus auricularis - White-browed Hemispingus - Peru - Split from H. atropileus
Hemispingus calophrys - Orange-browed Hemispingus - Peru, Bolivia
Hemispingus parodii - Parodi's Hemispingus - Peru
Hemispingus superciliaris - Superciliaried Hemispingus - Venezuela to N Bolivia
Hemispingus reyi - Grey-capped Hemispingus - SW Venezuela
Hemispingus frontalis - Oleaginous Hemispingus - Venezuela to Peru
Hemispingus melanotis - Black-eared Hemispingus - SW Venezuela to E Ecuador
Hemispingus ochraceus - Western Hemispingus - W Colombia to C Bolivia - Split from H. melanotus
Hemispingus piurae - Piura Hemispingus - NW Peru - Split from H. melanotus
Hemispingus goeringi - Slaty-backed Hemispingus - SW Venezuela
Hemispingus rufosuperciliaris - Rufous-browed Hemispingus - Peru
Hemispingus verticalis - Black-headed Hemispingus - Colombia to Peru
Hemispingus xanthophthalmus - Drab Hemispingus - Peru, Bolivia
Hemispingus trifasciatus - Three-striped Hemispingus - Peru, Bolivia

Cnemoscopus rubrirostris - Grey-hooded Bush Tanager - Venezuela to Peru

Thlypopsis fulviceps - Fulvous-headed Tanager - Colombia, Venezuela
Thlypopsis ornata - Rufous-chested Tanager - Colombia to Peru
Thlypopsis pectoralis - Brown-flanked Tanager - Peru
Thlypopsis sordida - Orange-headed Tanager - W Amazonia, E, SC South America
Thlypopsis inornata - Buff-bellied Tanager - Peru
Thlypopsis ruficeps - Rust-and-yellow Tanager - Peru to NW Argentina

Pyrrhocoma ruficeps - Chestnut-headed Tanager - SE South America

Cypsnagra hirundinacea - White-rumped Tanager - C, SC South America

Nephelornis oneilli - Pardusco - Peru

Trichothraupis melanops - Black-goggled Tanager - SC South America

Eucometis penicillata - Grey-headed Tanager - SE Mexico to SC Brazil & N Paraguay

Tachyphonus cristatus - Flame-crested Tanager - Amazonia
Tachyphonus rufiventer - Yellow-crested Tanager - SW Amazonia
Tachyphonus surinamus - Fulvous-crested Tanager - N, C, W Amazonia
Tachyphonus luctuosus - White-shouldered Tanager - Honduras to Bolivia
Tachyphonus delatrii - Tawny-crested Tanager - Nicaragua to Ecuador
Tachyphonus coronatus - Ruby-crowned Tanager - SE South America
Tachyphonus rufus - White-lined Tanager - Costa Rica to NE Argentina
Tachyphonus phoenicius - Red-shouldered Tanager - Amazonia

Lanio aurantius - Black-throated Shrike-Tanager - S Mexico to Honduras
Lanio leucothorax - White-throated Shrike-Tanager - Honduras to Panama
Lanio fulvus - Fulvous Shrike-Tanager - NW, N Amazonia
Lanio versicolor - White-winged Shrike-Tanager - S, W Amazonia

Ramphocelus sanguinolentus - Crimson-collared Tanager - S Mexico to Panama
Ramphocelus nigrogularis - Masked Crimson Tanager - W Amazonia
Ramphocelus dimidiatus - Crimson-backed Tanager - Panama to Colombia & Venezuela
Ramphocelus melanogaster - Huallaga Tanager - Peru
Ramphocelus carbo - Silver-beaked Tanager - N, W, SC South America
Ramphocelus bresilius - Brazilian Tanager - Brazil
Ramphocelus passerinii - Passerini's Tanager - S Mexico to Panama
Ramphocelus costaricensis - Cherrie's Tanager - W Costa Rica
Ramphocelus flammigerus - Flame-rumped Tanager - WC Colombia
Ramphocelus icteronotus - Lemon-rumped Tanager - Panama to Ecuador

Thraupis episcopus - Blue-grey Tanager - S Mexico to Bolivia, Amazonia
Thraupis sayaca - Sayaca Tanager - E, SE, SC South America
Thraupis glaucocolpa - Glaucous Tanager - Colombia, Venezuela
Thraupis cyanoptera - Azure-shouldered Tanager - SE South America
Thraupis ornata - Golden-chevroned Tanager - SE Brazil
Thraupis abbas - Yellow-winged Tanager - E Mexico to Nicaragua
Thraupis palmarum - Palm Tanager - Guatemala to Paraguay & S Brazil
Thraupis cyanocephala - Blue-capped Tanager - W, N South America
Thraupis bonariensis - Blue-and-yellow Tanager - W, SE South America

Calochaetes coccineus - Vermilion Tanager - Colombia to Peru

Cyanicterus cyanicterus - Blue-backed Tanager - N Amazonia

Bangsia arcaei - Blue-and-gold Tanager - Costa Rica, Panama
Bangsia melanochlamys - Black-and-gold Tanager - Colombia
Bangsia rothschildi - Golden-chested Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador
Bangsia edwardsi - Moss-backed Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador
Bangsia aureocincta - Gold-ringed Tanager - Colombia

Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron - Orange-throated Tanager - Peru

Buthraupis montana - Hooded Mountain Tanager - Colombia to Bolivia
Buthraupis eximia - Black-chested Mountain Tanager - Colombia to Peru
Buthraupis aureodorsalis - Golden-backed Mountain Tanager - Peru
Buthraupis wetmorei - Masked Mountain Tanager - Colombia to Peru

Anisognathus melanogenys - Santa Marta Mountain Tanager - Colombia
Anisognathus lacrymosus - Lacrimose Mountain Tanager - Venezuela to Peru
Anisognathus igniventris - Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager - Colombia to Bolivia
Anisognathus somptuosus - Blue-winged Mountain Tanager - Venezuela to Bolivia
Anisognathus notabilis - Black-chinned Mountain Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador

Chlorornis riefferii - Grass-green Tanager - Colombia to Bolivia

Dubusia taeniata - Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager - Venezuela to Peru

Delothraupis castaneoventris - Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager - Peru, Bolivia

Stephanophorus diadematus - Diademed Tanager - SE South America

Iridosornis porphyrocephalus - Purplish-mantled Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador
Iridosornis analis - Yellow-throated Tanager - Colombia to Peru
Iridosornis jelskii - Golden-collared Tanager - Peru, Bolivia
Iridosornis rufivertex - Golden-crowned Tanager - Venezuela to Peru
Iridosornis reinhardti - Yellow-scarfed Tanager - Peru

Pipraeidea melanonota - Fawn-breasted Tanager - N, W, SE South America

Neothraupis fasciata - Shrike-like Tanager - SC South America

Chlorochrysa phoenicotis - Glistening-green Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador
Chlorochrysa calliparaea - Orange-eared Tanager - Colombia to Bolivia
Chlorochrysa nitidissima - Multicolored Tanager - Colombia

Tangara inornata - Plain-colored Tanager - Costa Rica to Colombia
Tangara cabanisi - Cabanis's Tanager - S Mexico, Guatemala
Tangara palmeri - Grey-and-gold Tanager - Panama to Ecuador
Tangara mexicana - Turquoise Tanager - Amazonia, SE Brazil - White-bellied Tanager Tangara brasiliensis conspecific
Tangara chilensis - Paradise Tanager - Amazonia
Tangara fastuosa - Seven-colored Tanager - E Brazil
Tangara seledon - Green-headed Tanager - SE South America
Tangara cyanocephala - Red-necked Tanager - E, SE South America
Tangara desmaresti - Brassy-breasted Tanager - SE Brazil
Tangara cyanoventris - Gilt-edged Tanager - SE Brazil
Tangara johannae - Blue-whiskered Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador
Tangara schrankii - Green-and-gold Tanager - W Amazonia
Tangara florida - Emerald Tanager - Costa Rica to Ecuador
Tangara arthus - Golden Tanager - Venezuela to Bolivia
Tangara icterocephala - Silver-throated Tanager - Costa Rica to Ecuador
Tangara xanthocephala - Saffron-crowned Tanager - Venezuela to Bolivia
Tangara chrysotis - Golden-eared Tanager - Colombia to NW Bolivia
Tangara parzudakii - Flame-faced Tanager - Venezuela to Peru
Tangara xanthogastra - Yellow-bellied Tanager - W, N Amazonia
Tangara punctata - Spotted Tanager - Amazonia
Tangara guttata - Speckled Tanager - Costa Rica to N, NW Brazil
Tangara varia - Dotted Tanager - N Amazonia
Tangara rufigula - Rufous-throated Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador
Tangara gyrola - Bay-headed Tanager - Costa Rica through N, W Amazonia
Tangara lavinia - Rufous-winged Tanager - Honduras to Ecuador
Tangara cayana - Burnished-buff Tanager - Amazonia, SE, SC South America
Tangara cucullata - Lesser Antillean Tanager - Lesser Antilles
Tangara peruviana - Black-backed Tanager - SE Brazil
Tangara preciosa - Chestnut-backed Tanager - SE South America
Tangara vitriolina - Scrub Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador
Tangara meyerdeschauenseei - Green-capped Tanager - Peru
Tangara rufigenis - Rufous-cheeked Tanager - Venezuela
Tangara ruficervix - Golden-naped Tanager - Colombia to NW Bolivia
Tangara labradorides - Metallic-green Tanager - Colombia to Peru
Tangara cyanotis - Blue-browed Tanager - Colombia to Bolivia
Tangara cyanicollis - Blue-necked Tanager - Amazonia
Tangara larvata - Golden-hooded Tanager - S Mexico to Ecuador
Tangara nigrocincta - Masked Tanager - N, W Amazonia
Tangara dowii - Spangle-cheeked Tanager - Costa Rica, Panama
Tangara fucosa - Green-naped Tanager - Panama
Tangara nigroviridis - Beryl-spangled Tanager - Venezuela to Bolivia
Tangara vassorii - Blue-and-black Tanager - Venezuela to Bolivia
Tangara heinei - Black-capped Tanager - Venezuela to Ecuador
Tangara phillipsi - Sira Tanager - Peru
Tangara viridicollis - Silver-backed Tanager - Ecuador, Peru
Tangara argyrofenges - Straw-backed Tanager - Peru, Bolivia
Tangara cyanoptera - Black-headed Tanager - Colombia to Guyana
Tangara velia - Opal-rumped Tanager - Amazonia, SE Brazil
Tangara callophrys - Opal-crowned Tanager - W Amazonia

Tersina viridis - Swallow Tanager - Panama to NE Argentina

Dacnis albiventris - White-bellied Dacnis - W, C Amazonia
Dacnis lineata - Black-faced Dacnis - N, W Amazonia
Dacnis egregia - Yellow-tufted Dacnis - Colombia, Ecuador - Split from D. lineata
Dacnis flaviventer - Yellow-bellied Dacnis - W, C Amazonia
Dacnis hartlaubi - Turquoise Dacnis - Colombia
Dacnis nigripes - Black-legged Dacnis - SE Brazil
Dacnis venusta - Scarlet-thighed Dacnis - Costa Rica to Ecuador
Dacnis cayana - Blue Dacnis - Nicaragua to NE Argentina
Dacnis viguieri - Viridian Dacnis - Panama, Colombia
Dacnis berlepschi - Scarlet-breasted Dacnis - Colombia, Ecuador

Cyanerpes nitidus - Short-billed Honeycreeper - W Amazonia
Cyanerpes lucidus - Shining Honeycreeper - S Mexico to Colombia
Cyanerpes caeruleus - Purple Honeycreeper - NW, N South America
Cyanerpes cyaneus - Red-legged Honeycreeper - E Mexico to C Bolivia & E Brazil

Chlorophanes spiza - Green Honeycreeper - S Mexico to E Brazil

Iridophanes pulcherrimus - Golden-collared Honeycreeper - Colombia to Peru

Heterospingus rubrifrons - Sulphur-rumped Tanager - Costa Rica, Panama
Heterospingus xanthopygius - Scarlet-browed Tanager - Panama to Ecuador

Hemithraupis guira - Guira Tanager - Widespread South America
Hemithraupis ruficapilla - Rufous-headed Tanager - E, SE Brazil
Hemithraupis flavicollis - Yellow-backed Tanager - Panama to SE Brazil & SE Peru

Chrysothlypis chrysomelas - Black-and-yellow Tanager - Costa Rica, Panama
Chrysothlypis salmoni - Scarlet-and-white Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador - was Erythrothlypis salmoni

Xenodacnis parina - Tit-like Dacnis - Peru

Conirostrum speciosum - Chestnut-vented Conebill - Widespread South America
Conirostrum leucogenys - White-eared Conebill - Panama to Venezuela
Conirostrum bicolor - Bicolored Conebill - Amazonia
Conirostrum margaritae - Pearly-breasted Conebill - W Amazonia
Conirostrum cinereum - Cinereous Conebill - Colombia to N Chile
Conirostrum tamarugense - Tamarugo Conebill - Peru, Chile
Conirostrum ferrugineiventre - White-browed Conebill - Peru, Bolivia
Conirostrum rufum - Rufous-browed Conebill - Colombia
Conirostrum sitticolor - Blue-backed Conebill - Colombia to Bolivia
Conirostrum albifrons - Capped Conebill - Venezuela to Bolivia

Oreomanes fraseri - Giant Conebill - Colombia to Bolivia

Diglossa baritula - Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer - Mexico to Honduras
Diglossa plumbea - Slaty Flowerpiercer - Costa Rica, Panama
Diglossa sittoides - Rusty Flowerpiercer - Venezuela to NW Argentina
Diglossa gloriosissima - Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer - Colombia
Diglossa lafresnayii - Glossy Flowerpiercer - Venezuela to Peru
Diglossa mystacalis - Moustached Flowerpiercer - Peru, Bolivia
Diglossa gloriosa - Merida Flowerpiercer - Venezuela
Diglossa humeralis - Black Flowerpiercer - Venezuela to Peru
Diglossa brunneiventris - Black-throated Flowerpiercer - Colombia to Chile
Diglossa carbonaria - Grey-bellied Flowerpiercer - Bolivia
Diglossa venezuelensis - Venezuelan Flowerpiercer - Venezuela
Diglossa albilatera - White-sided Flowerpiercer - Venezuela to Peru
Diglossa duidae - Scaled Flowerpiercer - Tepuis
Diglossa major - Greater Flowerpiercer - Tepuis
Diglossa indigotica - Indigo Flowerpiercer - Colombia, Ecuador
Diglossa glauca - Golden-eyed Flowerpiercer - Colombia to Bolivia
Diglossa caerulescens - Bluish Flowerpiercer - Venezuela to Bolivia
Diglossa cyanea - Masked Flowerpiercer - Venezuela to Bolivia

Urothraupis stolzmanni - Black-backed Bush Tanager - Colombia, Ecuador

Oreothraupis arremonops - Tanager Finch - Colombia, Ecuador

Charitospiza eucosma - Coal-crested Finch - SC South America

Saltatricula multicolor - Many-colored Chaco Finch - SC South America

Coryphaspiza melanotis - Black-masked Finch - SC South America

Coryphospingus pileatus - Grey Pileated Finch - Colombia, Venezuela, EC Brazil
Coryphospingus cucullatus - Red Pileated Finch - NE, SC, WC South America

Rhodospingus cruentus - Crimson-breasted Finch - Ecuador, Peru

Phrygilus atriceps - Black-hooded Sierra Finch - SW South America
Phrygilus punensis - Peruvian Sierra Finch - Peru, Bolivia
Phrygilus gayi - Grey-hooded Sierra Finch - Chile, Argentina
Phrygilus patagonicus - Patagonian Sierra Finch - Chile, Argentina
Phrygilus fruticeti - Mourning Sierra Finch - SW South America
Phrygilus unicolor - Plumbeous Sierra Finch - Venezuela to S Chile & Argentina
Phrygilus dorsalis - Red-backed Sierra Finch - SW South America
Phrygilus erythronotus - White-throated Sierra Finch - SW South America
Phrygilus plebejus - Ash-breasted Sierra Finch - W, SW South America
Phrygilus carbonarius - Carbonated Sierra Finch - Argentina
Phrygilus alaudinus - Band-tailed Sierra Finch - W, SW South America

Melanodera melanodera - White-bridled Finch - S South America
Melanodera xanthogramma - Yellow-bridled Finch - S South America

Haplospiza rustica - Slaty Finch - S Mexico to Tepuis & C Bolivia
Haplospiza unicolor - Uniform Finch - SE South America

Acanthidops bairdi - Peg-billed Finch - Costa Rica, Panama

Lophospingus pusillus - Black-crested Finch - SC South America
Lophospingus griseocristatus - Grey-crested Finch - SW South America

Donacospiza albifrons - Long-tailed Reed Finch - SE, SC South America

Rowettia goughensis - Gough Finch - Gough Island

Nesospiza acunhae - Inaccessible Island Finch - Tristan da Cunha Group in S. Atlantic - Was Tristan Finch
Nesospiza questi - Nightingale Island Finch - Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha Group in S. Atlantic - Split from N. acunhae
Nesospiza wilkinsi - Wilkins's Finch - Tristan da Cunha Island in S.Atlantic

Diuca speculifera - White-winged Diuca Finch - SW South America
Diuca diuca - Common Diuca Finch - S South America

Idiopsar brachyurus - Short-tailed Finch - SW South America

Piezorhina cinerea - Cinereous Finch - Peru

Xenospingus concolor - Slender-billed Finch - Peru, Chile

Incaspiza pulchra - Great Inca Finch - Peru
Incaspiza personata - Rufous-backed Inca Finch - Peru
Incaspiza ortizi - Grey-winged Inca Finch - Peru
Incaspiza laeta - Buff-bridled Inca Finch - Peru
Incaspiza watkinsi - Little Inca Finch - Peru

Poospiza thoracica - Bay-chested Warbling Finch - SE Brazil
Poospiza boliviana - Bolivian Warbling Finch - Bolivia
Poospiza alticola - Plain-tailed Warbling Finch - Peru
Poospiza hypochondria - Rufous-sided Warbling Finch - SW South America
Poospiza erythrophrys - Rusty-browed Warbling Finch - SW South America
Poospiza ornata - Cinnamon Warbling Finch - W Argentina
Poospiza nigrorufa - Black-and-rufous Warbling Finch - SE, SC South America
Poospiza whitii - Black-and-chestnut Warbling Finch - SC South America - Split from P. nigrorufa
Poospiza lateralis - Buff-throated Warbling Finch - E, SE Brasil
Poospiza cabanisi - Grey-throated Warbling Finch - SE Brasil to NE Argentina including Uruguay and E Paraguay
Poospiza rubecula - Rufous-breasted Warbling Finch - Peru
Poospiza hispaniolensis - Collared Warbling Finch - Ecuador, Peru
Poospiza torquata - Ringed Warbling Finch - SC South America - includes ssp pectoralis
Poospiza melanoleuca - Black-capped Warbling Finch - SC South America
Poospiza cinerea - Cinereous Warbling Finch - S Brazil
Poospiza caesar - Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch - Peru - was Poospizopsis caesar, mistake?

Cochabamba Mountain Finch and Tucuman Mountain Finch were Poospiza
Compsospiza garleppi - Cochabamba Mountain Finch - Bolivia
Compsospiza baeri - Tucuman Mountain Finch - Argentina

Sicalis citrina - Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch - N, E, WC South America
Sicalis lutea - Puna Yellow Finch - SW South America
Sicalis uropygialis - Bright-rumped Yellow Finch - SW South America
Sicalis luteocephala - Citron-headed Yellow Finch - Bolivia
Sicalis auriventris - Greater Yellow Finch - Chile, Argentina
Sicalis olivascens - Greenish Yellow Finch - SW South America
Sicalis lebruni - Patagonian Yellow Finch - S South America
Sicalis columbiana - Orange-fronted Yellow Finch - N, E, C South America
Sicalis flaveola - Saffron Finch - N, WC, SE, SC South America
Sicalis luteola - Grassland Yellow Finch - Widespread Latin America incl Misto Yellow Finch
Sicalis raimondii - Raimondi's Yellow Finch - Peru
Sicalis taczanowskii - Sulphur-throated Finch - Ecuador, Peru

Emberizoides herbicola - Wedge-tailed Grass Finch - Costa Rica to NE Argentina
Emberizoides ypiranganus - Lesser Grass Finch - SE South America
Emberizoides duidae - Duida Grass Finch - Tepuis

Embernagra platensis - Pampa Finch - SE, SC South America - includes olivascens ssp
Embernagra longicauda - Serra Finch - E Brazil

Volatinia jacarina - Blue-black Grassquit - Widespread Latin America

Sporophila frontalis - Buffy-fronted Seedeater - SE South America
Sporophila falcirostris - Temminck's Seedeater - SE Brazil
Sporophila schistacea - Slate-colored Seedeater - S Mexico to Ecuador & N Brazil
Sporophila plumbea - Plumbeous Seedeater - N, C, SC South America
Sporophila corvina - Variable Seedeater - E Mexico to Peru - Split from S. americana
Sporophila intermedia - Grey Seedeater - N South America
Sporophila americana - Wing-barred Seedeater - N, W Amazonia
Sporophila murallae - Caqueta Seedeater - Colombia
Sporophila torqueola - White-collared Seedeater - S Texas to Panama - NB name
Sporophila collaris - Rusty-collared Seedeater - SC, SE South America
Sporophila bouvronides - Lesson's Seedeater - N, Amazonia
Sporophila lineola - Lined Seedeater - N, Amazonia, SC South America
Sporophila luctuosa - Black-and-white Seedeater - Venezuela to Bolivia
Sporophila nigricollis - Yellow-bellied Seedeater - Costa Rica to Bolivia
Sporophila ardesiaca - Dubois's Seedeater - SE Brazil
Sporophila caerulescens - Double-collared Seedeater - C, SC, SE South America
Sporophila albogularis - White-throated Seedeater - E Brazil
Sporophila leucoptera - White-bellied Seedeater - C, E, SC South America
Sporophila peruviana - Parrot-billed Seedeater - Ecuador, Peru
Sporophila simplex - Drab Seedeater - Ecuador, Peru
Sporophila nigrorufa - Black-and-tawny Seedeater - SW Brazil, Bolivia
Sporophila bouvreuil - Capped Seedeater - E, SE South America
Sporophila minuta - Ruddy-breasted Seedeater - SW Mexico through N South America
Sporophila hypoxantha - Tawny-bellied Seedeater - SC South America
Sporophila hypochroma - Rufous-rumped Seedeater - SC South America
Sporophila ruficollis - Dark-throated Seedeater - SC South America
Sporophila palustris - Marsh Seedeater - SC South America
Sporophila castaneiventris - Chestnut-bellied Seedeater - Amazonia
Sporophila cinnamomea - Chestnut Seedeater - SC South America
Sporophila melanogaster - Black-bellied Seedeater - SE Brazil
Sporophila telasco - Chestnut-throated Seedeater - Ecuador to NW Chile
Sporophila zelichi - Entre Rios Seedeater - NE Argentina - color morph of Marsh Seedeater

Oryzoborus funereus - Thick-billed Seed Finch - SE Mexico to W Ecuador - distinct from O. angolensis
Oryzoborus angolensis - Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch - N, E South America?, Amazonia - Was Lesser Seed Finch
Oryzoborus nuttingi - Nicaraguan Seed Finch - Nicaragua to Panama
Oryzoborus crassirostris - Large-billed Seed Finch - N South America from W Colombia and NW Ecuador to N Brazil
Oryzoborus maximiliani - Great-billed Seed Finch - N South America from E Venezuela to N Brazil and SE Brazil
Oryzoborus atrirostris - Black-billed Seed Finch - Peru, Bolivia

Amaurospiza species in Cardinalidae near Cyanocompsa not Emberizidae?
Amaurospiza concolor - Blue Seedeater - S Mexico to Ecuador
Amaurospiza moesta - Blackish-blue Seedeater - E, SE South America
Amaurospiza carrizalensis - Carrizal Seedeater - SE Venezuela

Melopyrrha nigra - Cuban Bullfinch - Cuba, Cayman Islands

Dolospingus fringilloides - White-naped Seedeater - N, NW Amazonia

Catamenia analis - Band-tailed Seedeater - Colombia to N Chile
Catamenia inornata - Plain-colored Seedeater - Venezuela to N Argentina
Catamenia homochroa - Paramo Seedeater - Tepuis, Venezuela to N Bolivia

Tiaris canorus - Cuban Grassquit - Cuba
Tiaris olivaceus - Yellow-faced Grassquit - Greater Antilles, E Mexico to Venezuela
Tiaris obscurus - Dull-colored Grassquit - Venezuela to Argentina
Tiaris bicolor - Black-faced Grassquit - West Indies, N South America
Tiaris fuliginosus - Sooty Grassquit - N South America, E, SW Brazil

Loxipasser anoxanthus - Yellow-shouldered Grassquit - Jamaica

Loxigilla portoricensis - Puerto Rican Bullfinch - Puerto Rico
Loxigilla violacea - Greater Antillean Bullfinch - Bahamas, Hispaniola
Loxigilla noctis - Lesser Antillean Bullfinch - Lesser Antilles
Loxigilla barbadensis - Barbados Bullfinch - Barbados

Euneornis campestris - Orangequit - Jamaica

Melanospiza richardsoni - St. Lucia Black Finch - St. Lucia

Geospiza magnirostris - Large Ground Finch - Galápagos Islands
Geospiza fortis - Medium Ground Finch - Galápagos Islands
Geospiza fuliginosa - Small Ground Finch - Galápagos Islands
Geospiza difficilis - Sharp-beaked Ground Finch - Galápagos Islands
Geospiza scandens - Common Cactus Finch - Galápagos Islands
Geospiza conirostris - Large Cactus Finch - Galápagos Islands

Platyspiza crassirostris - Vegetarian Finch - Galápagos Islands - was Camarhynchus crassirostris

Camarhynchus psittacula - Large Tree Finch - Galápagos Islands
Camarhynchus pauper - Medium Tree Finch - Galápagos Islands
Camarhynchus parvulus - Small Tree Finch - Galápagos Islands
Camarhynchus pallidus - Woodpecker Finch - Galápagos Islands
Camarhynchus heliobates - Mangrove Finch - Galápagos Islands

Certhidea olivacea - Green Warbler-Finch - Galápagos Islands
Certhidea fusca - Grey Warbler-Finch - Galápagos Islands - Split from C. olivacea

Pinaroloxias inornata - Cocos Finch - Isla del Cocos

Piranga spp tanager-grosbeaks are Cardinalidae (not tanagers/Thraupidae)
Piranga bidentata - Flame-colored Tanager - W Mexico to Panama
Piranga lutea - Tooth-billed Tanager - Costa Rica to Bolivia - Split from P. hepatica
Piranga flava - Red Tanager - S Guyana through E Brazil to Argentina - Split from P. hepatica
Piranga hepatica - Hepatic Tanager - W USA to Nicaragua
Piranga rubra - Summer Tanager - S USA, N Mexico - Amazonia, Bolivia
Piranga roseogularis - Rose-throated Tanager - Mexico to Guatemala
Piranga olivacea - Scarlet Tanager - E North America - Panama to Amazonia
Piranga ludoviciana - Western Tanager - W North America - W Central America
Piranga leucoptera - White-winged Tanager - E Mexico to Bolivia
Piranga erythrocephala - Red-headed Tanager - Mexico
Piranga rubriceps - Red-hooded Tanager - Colombia to Peru

Habia spp tanager-grosbeaks are Cardinalidae (not tanagers/Thraupidae)
Habia rubica - Red-crowned Ant Tanager - Widespread Latin America
Habia fuscicauda - Red-throated Ant Tanager - Mexico to Colombia
Habia atrimaxillaris - Black-cheeked Ant Tanager - Costa Rica
Habia gutturalis - Sooty Ant Tanager - Colombia
Habia cristata - Crested Ant Tanager - Colombia

Nesospingus speculiferus - Puerto Rican Tanager - Puerto Rico

Phaenicophilus palmarum - Black-crowned Tanager - Hispaniola
Phaenicophilus poliocephalus - Grey-crowned Tanager - Hispaniola

Calyptophilus tertius - Western Chat-Tanager - Hispaniola
Calyptophilus frugivorus - Eastern Chat-Tanager - Hispaniola

Spindalis zena - Western Spindalis - Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Cozumel Island
Spindalis dominicensis - Hispaniolan Spindalis - Hispaniola
Spindalis portoricensis - Puerto Rican Spindalis - Puerto Rico
Spindalis nigricephala - Jamaican Spindalis - Jamaica

Rhodinocichla rosea - Rosy Thrush-Tanager - W Mexico to Venezuela

Catamblyrhynchus diadema - Plushcap - Venezuela to NW Argentina