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The Cherrie's Tanager Ramphocelus costaricensis, is a resident breeder in the Pacific lowlands of Costa and western Panama. Cherrie’s Tanager and Passerini’s Tanager make a strange pair. The males, with scarlet rumps and thus sometimes called the Scarlet-rumped Tanager are identical and only the females of these two species are different.
The female has a grey head, olive upperparts, orange rump, brownish wings and tail, and ochre underparts with a broad orange breast band. This is well illustrated in photo 7310. Photo 6983 shows the male and female. The female Passerini’s Tanager has a very faint orange rump and breast instead of the bright orange of Cherrie’s.

These photos were taken at the Esquinas Rain Forest and the Talari Mountain Lodge feeders, Costa Rica.

Cherrie's Tanager