Tangara parzudakii

This Flame-faced Tanager is one of the many species of tanager that we photographed on our recent Peru trip. We spotted this particular one along with two others while walking along a road in the mountains. The birds started out way up in the trees actively feeding and making it very difficult to get photos. Much to our delight this one dropped down from way above us to a small plant below us giving us some great views. As you might imagine the camera shutters were making quite a racket the whole time the bird hung out. What a thrill! Tomorrow I will be heading down to Costa Rica with a great group of photographers and I can’t wait to see what birds will cooperate for us like this tanager did in Peru.

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