Silver Throated Tanager

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, Ecuador.

Below, Silver-throated Tanager feeding on berries, Chiriqui, Panama, May.


Below, Silver-throated Tanager.


Below, Silver-throated Tanager feeding on berries.



Below, Silver-throated Tanager often hangs upside-down.


Below, Silver-throated Tanager, white throat looks greenish under flash.