The Story
I photographed this female Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) at the Reserva Natural Municipal Cerro Munchique Los Tigres, near Santander de Quilichao in Cauca, Colombia. Males are velvety black with a flame-scarlet rump; females are blackish brown above with a reddish-orange rump and a pale yellow breast washed with reddish orange, and both eat fruit and arthropods at forest edges. The flame-rumped subspecies has a restricted range in Colombia, centered on the Cauca River valley. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I used a Canon R5 with the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender for this one, at 1/45 sec, f/16, ISO 6400. In the vereda Guayabal, students of the Institución Educativa La Esperanza take part in “Rutas de Esperanza,” a community birding project.
©2022 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) 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 2023), with the population trend listed as increasing. Source: IUCN Red List