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Silver-beaked tanager        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Silver-beaked tanagers are one of the most common and widely-distributed of the many species of tanagers in the Neotropics.   These were photographed at about 1500 m elevation on the Manu Road in southeastern Peru; they were coming to a small fruiting tree.   Other species feeding on these fruits included a number of other tanagers (palm, golden, orange-eared, paradise, golden-eared, golden-naped, spotted, beryl-spangled, bay-headed, 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 or 7D; 500 mm IS lens or 800 mm IS lens plus 1.4X converter, fill-in flash (2012, 2013, 2014)