The Story
I photographed this Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola) in the Cincinati area above Minca, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, at about 1,480 meters. It lives in Costa Rica, Panama and much of northern South America, and on Trinidad. It is a social bird that eats mainly fruit, usually swallowed whole. Its song is a slow seee, seee, seee, tsou, tsooy, and the female incubates the two eggs for 13 to 14 days. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I photographed it with a Canon R5 and the RF 800mm f/11, at 1/90 sec, f/11, ISO 6400, −0.5 EV. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated range, separate from the Andes, that rises to 5,700 meters just 42 kilometers from the Caribbean coast.
©2021 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola) 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 2021), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Source: IUCN Red List