Azure-rumped Tanager

Its plumage is mostly very pale blue, though it has a periwinkle crown. It also has a black mask around its lores. The bill is gray with a dark tip. The mantle is mottled green and black. The wings and tail are black with blue edgings. This bird makes a wi sseeu song and a sii call.

The Azure-rumped Tanager is classified as Endangered (EN), considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Azure-rumped Tanager, on the other hand, was a BIG DEAL BIRD that simply had to be seen ere we evacuated El Quetzal. …and it was! Azure-rumped Tanager The Azure-rumped Tanager is a much bolder, better looking bird that field guides (or my meager photographs) give it credit for. More

Combining great loveliness and rarity is Azure-rumped Tanager (left in a fantastic shot by Lou Jost). It is limited to a narrow elevational range in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, and adjacent western Guatemala. It is the Andes where the Tangara tanagers really shine. One encounters mixed-species flocks which include a dozen or more species, some with such alliterative names as Beryl-spangled Tanager T. nigroviridis, Spangle-cheeked Tanager T. dowii, or Flame-faced Tanager T. parzudakii. More

The Azure-rumped Tanager, Tangara cabanisi is a Middle American bird of the family thraupidae. It is a local resident in moist, tropical foothill forests of Guatemala and southern Chiapas. Its plumage is mostly very pale blue, though it has a periwinkle crown. It also has a black mask around its lores. The bill is gray with a dark tip. The mantle is mottled green and black. The wings and tail are black with blue edgings. More

* Azure-rumped Tanager (Tangara cabanisi), bird in the Thraupidae family * Azure-shouldered Tanager (Thraupis cyanoptera), bird in the Thraupidae family * Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyana), bird in the crow family, Corvidae * The Splendid Fairywren (Malurus splendens), a passerine bird in the Maluridae family, is colored azure. More

Azure-rumped tanager on branch Azure-rumped tanager on branchPrint factsheet Facts - Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Aves Order Passeriformes Family Thraupidae Genus Tangara (1) Size Length: 15 cm (2) Status More

The azure-rumped tanager can be heard calling when moving from tree to tree; calls include flat bursts of ticking notes, a low, slow se-e-eet or a loud and excited chi-tuck tweet (4). - Occurs in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in south-west Mexico, and the adjacent area in Guatemala (3). More

Azure-rumped Tanager (Tangara cabanisi) in the canopy of a strangler fig tree in the Los Andes cloud forest. Quetzal nest box Nest box with an emergent ornamental plume of an adult male Resplendent Quetzal, incubating the clutch. Birding at Los Andes Reserve. Los Andes Reserve is part of a network of private nature reserves conserving forests on the southern and eastern slope of Atitl More

rare Azure-rumped Tanager? And on the way back to lunch you could very well encounter a Resplendent Quetzal, considered by many to be one of the most beautiful birds in the world. The habitats we will visit are varied, from pine-oak forests near Antigua to tropical lowland forests near Retalhuleu ("Reu" for short) and cloud forest on the slopes of Volcan Atitlan. More

Feeding Azure-rumped Tanager in Chiapas, Mexico. Story and Photos by Lou Jost In these days of intimate bird films and videos, detailed guides and bird magazines, something has been lost from birding North America. During the eighteenth century, Audubon or Wilson wondered about the plumage colors of rare birds and could be surprised by a new specimen, but today the mystery is gone. More