Birds of Colombia - Ramphocelus


Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo carbo) Male Copalinga, Zamora, Ecuador
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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 (Ramphocelus dimidiatus molochinus) Male ProAves Chestnut-capped Piha Reserve, Anorí, Antioquia, Colombia
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Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus) Female Valle de Anton, Panama
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Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) Male ENDEMIC ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia
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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 (Ramphocelus icteronotus) Male Tatama National Park, Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, Colombia
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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 (Ramphocelus nigrogularis) Female Yarina Lodge, Ecuador The male has a black belly.
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