♀️ Tangara heinei (Black-capped Tanager / Tangara capirotada)

La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.

 

Black-capped Tanagers (Tangara heinei) are vividly-colored tropical birds that occur from Venezuela to Ecuador. This species is primarily found in montane forest edges, at forest clearings (natural as well as man-made), and in tall second-growth forest. Black-capped Tanagers often occur in pairs and sometimes in mixed-species flocks, foraging in bushes and trees for insects and fruit.

 

It is one of the few species in the genus that shows obvious sexual dichromatism, with males primarily gray-blue in color with a distinctive black cap, and females yellow-green without a black cap.

 

neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...

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