Yellow-backed Tanager (juvenile), La Isla Escondida, Colombia
Juvenile of the Yellow-backed Tanager as seen from the canopy of La Isla Escondida. As can be seen from the timestamp, it's not even 8AM yet and at this point already the brutal Amazonian sun is frying us alive on the bird platform.
The yellow-backed tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname; also extreme eastern Panama in Central America. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.
Similar species: Perching Birds
By Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Dec 1, 2018. Captured Oct 18, 2018 07:45 in Orito, Putumayo, Colombia.
