Golden-hooded Tanager
The Golden-hooded Tanager Tangara larvata, is a resident breeder from southern Mexico south to western Ecuador.
The adult male has a golden head with a black eye mask edged with violet blue above and below. The upperparts of the body are black apart from the turquoise shoulders, rump and edgings of the wings and tail. The flanks are blue and the central belly is white. Females have a greenish tinge to the head, sometimes with black speckling on the crown, and more extensively white underparts.
It resides from sea level to 1500 m altitude in the canopy of dense forests and semi-open areas like clearings, second growth and well-vegetated gardens.
These were photographed at the Peace Lodge and Arenal Observatory.
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