He wears a suit made up of almost entirely midnight black except for an eye-popping rump of fiery flaming red!
MEET THE FLAME RUMPED TANAGER
The flame-rumped tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) is a species of primarily black bird with the lower back, rump, and uppertail coverts either lemony yellow (subspecies icteronotus) or the same area warmer yellow to orange, crimson, or scarlet (subspecies flammigerus). The birds with less scarlet have been interpreted as hybrids or intergrade species.
Females tend to be mostly olive-grey above as well as on the head.
They are yellow and orange below and on the lower back and rump.
These birds can be found in western Panama, Colombia, and extreme western Ecuador at low to middle elevations.
Flame-rumped tanager likes to inhabit primary forest and edges, second growth, overgrown areas, gardens, and parks. Subspecies icteronotus seem to be excluded from the primary forest.
Like most tanager species flame rumped tanager like to dine on fruit, seeds, and invertebrates.
Little is known about the breeding habits of the flame-rumped tanager, though it is known that an open cup-shaped nest is built into which a clutch is generally laid of two eggs marked with black, brown, or lilac. Two broods are raised per season.
These birds are regarded as of Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
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