My last post focused on the black-chinned mountain tanager and mentioned that there was only one paragraph on it in Wikipedia and one paragraph on eBird. Ditto for the rose-faced parrot, another Choco-endemic bird found only in the Andean cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia. Of the four best photos on eBird, two were taken at Amagusa Preserve in Mashpi where I was.
It is: mostly green with a golden-brown crown, neck and chest; a light-blue iris, a dark blue pupil with a dark circle around the eye; a flesh-colored bill; a reddish-pink cheek with a black border; a dark brown cap; flesh colored feet; and tinges of dark blue in the tail and wing feathers.
Sergio Basantes, who runs the Preserve, put out several large bunches of bananas in a tree near a clearing which brought the parrots in in droves. They squawked and made lots of noise.
What a beautiful bird, and you got THREE at once. It is wild how it is the very same color as the banana peels.
ReplyDeleteI had photos with ten or twelve in them. I just cropped them down. There were lots of parrots munching on those bananas.
DeleteI always wondered by the birds were green, now I know. 🍌
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