Blue-gray Tanager
Thraupis episcopus

f6.3 @ 1/250s, ISO:1600, Nikon D3S w 500mm


"Blue-gray Tanager," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The breeding habitat is open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens. The blue-gray tanager lives mainly on fruit, but will also take some nectar and insects. This is a common, restless, noisy and confiding species, usually found in pairs, but sometimes small groups. It thrives around human habitation, and will take some cultivated fruit like papayas (Carica papaya). One to three, usually two, dark-marked whitish to gray-green eggs are laid in a deep cup nest in a high tree fork or building crevice. Incubation by the female is 14 days with another 17 to fledging. The nest is sometimes parasitised by Molothrus cowbirds.
El Valle de Anton, Panama
 
02/18/2019