Return of Bird of the Week: Golden-hooded Tanager
It’s been more than a year since WC blogged about Tanagers, the most colorful bird family in the Neotropics. WC will attempt to make up for the lapse by focusing on Thraupidae, the tanager family, for the next few weeks on the birds of the week. There are an astonishing 380 or so species in the family Thraupidae. WC has photos of about 100 of them, although not all are even close to presentation quality. So we could have nothing but tanagers for quite a while. We’ll see. We’ll start with one of the colorful species, the Golden-hooded Tanager. In…
Return of Bird of the Week: Golden-hooded Tanager
The Golden-hooded Tanager isn’t even Costa Rica’s most spectacularly beautiful bird, but it’s pretty darn impressive.Besides, WC has neglected the avifauna of Central America. Tanagers as a group are an extensive, amazingly color family. But you are more likely to see Golden-hoodeds; they are enthusiatic visitors to fruit feeders. These photos don’t really begin to show the colors on this bird. WC supposes he will have to go back. Darn. For more bird photos, please visit Frozen Feather Images.