Ochre Breasted Tanager

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.

These pictures have not been confimred by an expert - it’s possible this is a bush-tanger. Both these photos are of the same bird, one with flash one without, just as a downpour was starting at the Milpe Reserve in northwest Ecuador.

Below, possible Ochre Breasted Tanage without flash at Milpe Reserve. March 2011