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Tangara florida
A colourful emerald tanager spotted at the Arenal Volcano Observatory. Yellow crown and back, bright green underparts, black bill, cheeks, wing stripes and tail.
Subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Belated thanks to all for your comments.
Dreamfalcon you're right... we don't get birds like this in Switzerland!
Thanks Peter and everyone! And thanks to Jonathan Sequeira for originally IDing this bird. You can see the birds that this guy is hanging out with and that Peter is talking about at:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/704...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/705...
Spotting of the day!
"Emerald Tanagers are striking, neon-green neotropical birds who make friends easily with other groups of birds, creating mixed flocks of tanagers, honey creepers and warblers."
http://facebook.com/projectnoah/posts/14...
http://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/10...
Thanks for your ID suggestion Jonathan! I am intrigued as the bird doesn't have the silver-throat pattern of the silver-throated tanager and is has more green than yellow. I have browsed galleries of tanagers but found nothing similar. Can you shed more light?
Spotted on Jan 19, 2008
Submitted on May 21, 2011
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