Lemon-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus icteronotus Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus icteronotus Toche Enjalmado

Lemon-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus icteronotus
(aka Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus icteronotus)

Colombian name: Toche Enjalmado

Lemon-rumped Tanager, Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image

Colombia and Ecuador

The Lemon-rumped Tanager is distributed from Panama to the Pacific coast of Colombia, Ecuador and north-west Peru and in the Magdalena and Cauca valleys of Colombia. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. It is found in thickets, forest borders, gardens, etc. from sea-level up to about 2,000 metres.

Flame-rumped Tanager, Montezuma, Tatamá, Risaralda, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image

The IOC and Birdlife International treat the Lemon-rumped Tanager as a good species however Clements and eBird treat it as a sub-species of Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus icteronotus

Photos 4 and 6 show a female and photo 5 shows an immature.

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