Silver-throated Tanager
Tangara icterocephala

f6.3 @ 1/400s, ISO:2500, Nikon D3S w 500mm


"Silver-throated Tanager," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The silver-throated tanager is a small passerine bird. This brightly colored tanager is a resident from Costa Rica, through Panama and western Colombia, to western Ecuador. The adult silver-throated tanager is 13 centimetres (5.1 in) long and weighs 21 grams (0.74 oz). The male is mainly yellow, with black streaks down its back, and a whitish throat bordered above with a black malar stripe. The wings and tail are black with pale green edgings. The sexes are similar, but adult females have duller and greener-tinged yellow plumage, and sometimes dark mottling on the crown. Immatures are much duller and greener, with dusky wings, tail, back streaks and malar stripe, a grey throat and darker green wing edging. The silver-throated tanager's call is a distinctive sharp buzzy zzeeep. It does not sing.
El Valle de Anton, Panama
 
02/21/2019