Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta Tangará de Tatamá

Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta

Colombian name: Tangará de Tatamá

Cerro Montezuma, Tatamá, Risaralda, Colombia
April 2012

The Gold-ringed Tanager is a Colombian endemic restricted to a small area around the Cerro Tatamá. See the distribution map at NatureServe.

Because of its restricted range and the threat to its habitat from logging it is classified as Endangered by Birdlife International.

It is found in wet, mossy cloudforest on the Pacific slope of the Western Cordillera where it feeds mainly on fruit but also on insects. Photos 4 shows a male bird feeding on Cecropia fruit while photos 2 and 3 show a male feeding on another type of fruit.

The males have head, lower throat and sides of breast black with a conspicuous yellow ring round the cheeks and ear-coverts. The female, seen here in photo 1, is similar but the black on the head, etc., is replaced by a dark moss-green.

What seems to be the main vocalization is a series of undulating trills.

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