Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thraupidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Immature | Sex: Male | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Identification & Behavior: ~18 cm (7 in). The male Lemon-rumped Tanager is black with a bright yellow rump. The female is dusky gray above and yellow below. It forages is semi-open habitats, forest edges, scrub, and second growth. Both sexes have a silver bill, which is brighter in the male. The plumage of this tanager is unmistakable, but see the Yellow-rumped Cacique and Golden-bellied Grosbeak.
Status: The Lemon-rumped Tanager is rare in humid forest edges in extreme northwest Peru in the Department of Tumbes. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Tangara Lomo Limón.
Sub-species: Lemon-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus icteronotus) Bonaparte, 1838.
Meaning of Name: Ramphocelus: Gr. Rhamphos= bill and koilos= concave. icteronotus: Gr. Ikteros= jaundice-yellow; noton= back, notos= backed.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.