The lemon-rumped tanager is a subspecies of the flame-rumped tanager, but is considered a species by some authorities. Males are mostly black with a yellow rump (the rump is red in the nominate subspecies and is actually prettier). It has a black-tipped pale bluish bill.
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Females have a black-brown head, wings and tail with mostly yellow underparts (the rump, vent and chest are orange-red in the nominate subspecies and again, it is much prettier).
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Juvenile: prettiest of all with a mixture of yellow, black and brown. |
It is found relatively close to the Pacific coast from a small portion of northern Peru up through Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and into southern Costa Rica. I saw it in Ecuador in the Mindo Valley and at the Amagusa Preserve in Mashpi.
Who would guess that the male and female are the same species? It takes junior to mix their features and tie them together.
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