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Scarlet-bellied mountain-tanager        Images © Mark A. Chappell

There are lots of brightly-colored South American tanagers, but this one has a color combination that is almost odd.   It's a common bird in higher-elevation Peruvian cloud forests on the east slope of the Andes (along with relatives such as the hooded mountain-tanager and the golden-collared tanager).   These were photographed near the Wayqecha Research Station, at about 3000 m elevation on the Manu Road in southeastern Peru.

  • Canon 7D; 500 mm IS lens plus 1.4X converter, fill-in flash (2012, 2013)