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Bay-headed tanager        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Bay-headed tanagers are found in medium altitude cloud forests on the east slope of the Andes; in typical light the head appears less intensely red than in these images.   These were coming to a small fruiting tree in San Pedro, at about 1500 m altitude on the Manu Road in southeastern Peru.   Other species feeding on these fruits included a number of other tanagers (palm, silver-beaked, orange-eared, golden, golden-naped, paradise, spotted, beryl-spangled, golden-eared, blue-necked, saffron-crowned, and common bush-tanager), and in addition to the tanagers, versicolored barbets, blue-naped chlorophonias and orange-bellied euphonias.

  • Canon 1D4, 500 mm IS lens plus 1.4X or 2X extender, fill-in flash (2013)