Birds of Colombia

    PASSERIFORMES: Thraupidae (Tanagers & Allies)  
Genus: Ramphocelus (5 species, 9 worldwide)


Silver-beaked Tanager
Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo carbo) Male
Copalinga, Zamora, Ecuador  
   
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Silver-beaked Tanager
Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) Female or Immature
 
   
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Perhaps the most common tanager in the Amazon. Seen up to 1500m on the eastern Andean slope, and found in all types of habitat usually in pairs.

Crimson-backed Tanager
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus molochinus) Male
ProAves Chestnut-capped Piha Reserve, AnorĂ­, Antioquia, Colombia  
   
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Crimson-backed Tanager
Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus) Female
Valle de Anton, Panama  
   
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Flame-rumped Tanager
Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) Male ENDEMIC
ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia  
   
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Flame-rumped Tanager
Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) Female ENDEMIC
ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia  
   
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A Colombian endemic species sometimes considered conspecific with the Lemon-rumped Tanager. Variation in color especially in the female may be because of hybridization.
A male hybrid lemon/flame.
Additional photo.

Lemon-rumped Tanager
Lemon-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus icteronotus) Male
Tatama National Park, Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, Colombia  
   
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Lemon-rumped Tanager
Lemon-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus icteronotus) Female
Farallones National Park, Colombia  
   
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Some taxonomies have lumped the Flame-rumped Tanager (flame is orange red), only found in Colombia, with this species, because they hybridize.

Masked Crimson Tanager
Masked Crimson Tanager (Ramphocelus nigrogularis) Female
Yarina Lodge, Ecuador
  The male has a black belly.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.



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