The Story
This young Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) sat quietly in the Mocagua Indigenous community, a Ticuna resguardo beside Amacayacu National Natural Park in Amazonas, Colombia, its feathers still the brownish red of a juvenile rather than the deep crimson-black of an adult male. Young birds look like adult females, which have a dark rusty-red head and back. Where its diet has been studied, it eats about equal amounts of plant and animal food, mostly fruit and arthropods. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I made this frame with a Canon R5 and the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender, at 1/60 sec, f/16, ISO 3200, −0.5 EV. Mocagua’s Ticuna community runs guided ecotourism next to Amacayacu National Natural Park, so visits like mine help support the people who protect this forest.
©2023 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) belongs to the family Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2024), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List
