Emerald Tanager

Tangara florida

Description:

A colourful emerald tanager spotted at the Arenal Volcano Observatory. Yellow crown and back, bright green underparts, black bill, cheeks, wing stripes and tail.

Habitat:

Subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Jonathan Sequeira 11 years ago

Silver-throated Tanager

Tangara icterocephala

24 Comments

DanielePralong 10 years ago

Thanks for your comment MaithiliSave!

MaithiliSave 10 years ago

wow!!!

DanielePralong 10 years ago

Thank you matimar1!

DanielePralong 11 years ago

Belated thanks to all for your comments.
Dreamfalcon you're right... we don't get birds like this in Switzerland!

Arun 11 years ago

Congrtsssssss

dreamfalcon 11 years ago

Must be great to see such a colorful bird :-)

Noe and Pili 11 years ago

Congrats Danielle! Well deserved!

hayde 11 years ago

Bravo Daniele!

Wild Things 11 years ago

Congratulations Daniele.

Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

I find its voice lot sweet...
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/por...

DanielePralong 11 years ago

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...

Hema Shah 11 years ago

Congratulations and thanks for sharing this beautiful bird!

alicelongmartin 11 years ago

Congratulations on a Beautiful bird!!

Jonathan Sequeira 11 years ago

congratulations, for the spotting of the day.

peter 11 years ago

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...

DanielePralong 11 years ago

Thanks Emma and NicoleB! Costa Rican birds are a riot of colour.

NicoleB 11 years ago

What a colourful, gorgeous fellow!

Hema Shah 11 years ago

Daniel,this is a real beauty!

DanielePralong 11 years ago

Thank you Chaitanya!

Chaitanya 11 years ago

Brilliant show of green....nice shot!

DanielePralong 11 years ago

Yes, this time that's it Jonathan, perfect match. Thanks!

Jonathan Sequeira 11 years ago

I see, check for Tangara florida, Emerald Tanager

DanielePralong 11 years ago

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?