Tanagers, dachnis, spinetails,
euphonias
1. fawn-breasted tanager
2. Brazilian tanager
3. yellow-chinned spinetail
4. violaceous euphonia
5. sayaca tanager
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violaceous euphonia, Avaré, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008.
Top photo is a female and the bottom 2 photos are of a male.
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Brazilian tanager (sangue de boi),
Itacaré, Bahia, Brazil, 2008.
This species is dimorphic, and the female is much less colorful than
the male.
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Brazilian tanager (sangue de boi), Itacaré, Bahia, Brazil, 2008.
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fawn-breasted tanager, Avaré, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008.
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sayaca tanager, Avaré,
São Paulo, Brazil, 2008. Some of the residents of the
vacation house community place fruit in the trees and quickly birds
come to feed. I never had birds come so quickly for food in Arizona.
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violaceous euphonia, Avaré, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008.
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female blue dracnis, Itacaré, Bahia,
Brazil, 2008.
The female is green with a blue face and some black masking.
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male blue dacnis, Avaré,
São Paulo, Brazil, 2008.
As is apparent from the previous pictures, the male is morphologically
different from the female.
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yellow-chinned spinetails, Taboinhas, Bahia, Brazil, 2008.
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Avaré, São Paulo, Brazil,
2008. A good view from behind of a pair of blue dacnis. The other birds
are eared dove (two largest doves), ruddy ground-dove (small dove in
the middle), and sayaca tanagers (on top feeding on both sides of
the pair of blue dacnis).
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