Tanagers

Now, I mentioned that this is a tropical tanager.

It's a member of the family Thraupidae.

So if you know your tanagers in North America, those birds are actually in a different family.

Those are not closely related to these guys.

The family Thraupidae is quite diverse.

It's mega diverse.

It has 389 species living from basically Mexico all the way down to southern South America.

Today, known populations are found only within a one and a half square mile area.

The Fisher's Phragmopedium shares its Premontane rainforest habitat with mountain tapir, tropical kingbird, red-tailed squirrel, cape gooseberry, western honeybee, bronze-winged parrot, Juneau silverspot, sleeping hibiscus, shiny cowbird, white-whiskered puffbird, golden trumpet, Torrent Duck, Pepper Glass Frog, Coleus, Silver-throated Tanager, Pansy Daggerwing, Golden-bellied Flycatcher, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Rufous-collared Sparrow, Spiny-backed Orbweaver, Spectacled Bear, Western Emerald, South American Koti, Woodland Strawberry, Tawny-bellied Hermit, Red Peacock, Pale-eyed Thrush, and many, The Fisher's Phragmopedium, both historically and today, is threatened by human habitat exploitation, destruction, and fragmentation.

Swaths of forest and its habitat have been and continue to be cleared for agriculture, specifically for growing Narnia fruit.

Naranjaya cultivation quickly, like within a few years, exhausts the minerals and nutrients of the mountain soils.

It's mostly because the males have such bright plumage.

So even like the indigo bunting, And the Tanagers, but yeah, it's kind of an interesting thing that is pretty specific to Cardinals.

Okay, good to know.

Blue Rose Week as well.

Ye skim where the stream parts the orchard-decked land, ye dance where the foam sweeps the desolate strand.

The Red-Rumped Tanager An American family, the Tanagers are mostly birds of very brilliant plumage.

There are three hundred species, a few being tropical birds.

They are found in the British and French Guyana, living in the latter country in open spots of dwellings and feeding on bananas and other fruits.