White-lined Tanager (Tachyphonus rufus)
Male White-lined Tanager, Carajás, Pará, Brazil, October 2005 - click for larger image Carajás, Pará, Brazil
October 2005

The White-lined Tanager is distributed in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, northern Venezuela, the Guianas, much of Brazil and into Paraguay and northern Argentina. However, it is absent from eastern and south-eastern Brazil and much of western Amazonia.

Female White-lined Tanager, Carajás, Pará, Brazil, October 2005 - click for larger image It is found in clearings and forest borders usually near water. Like most Tachyphonus, they are usually seen in pairs or small family groups. They feed on fruit and insects.

The male looks all black but it can show its white wing-coverts as in photo 1. The lower mandible has a steel-blue base. The female is reddish brown but this can vary a bit in hue.
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