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Scarlet Browed Tanager

Scarlet Browed Tanager - Heterospingus xanthopygius
Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Silanche, Ecuador, March 2011

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