Silver-beaked Tanager

Description:

These birds at 18 cm are medium-sized birds. It is hard to miss the male with its bright silver beak. The beak of the female is more gray. There is a wide range of difference in color depending on the locality. In Ecuador both the male and female are rusty brown, the male being somewhat redder than the female. I hadn't even seen the second one (photo 4) until editing the pictures on my computer.

Habitat:

These birds were seen in a tree on the outskirts of a small town on the edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle (1060 masl).

Notes:

This spotting is part of a 3-fer. I was trying to get a picture of a bird in a tree close by but it flew off. I saw the tree where it landed and maxed out my zoom to find him and found there were also 2 other pairs of Tanagers that were each different. They are listed separately but you can see what I saw in my viewfinder in photo 5. All three species were firsts for me.