#Beryl-spangled Tanager

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Beryl-spangled Tanager

Photographed by Andres Florez

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[757/10,977] Beryl-spangled Tanager - Tangara nigroviridis

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Thraupidae (tanagers)

Photo credit: Chris Venetz via Macaulay Library

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Beryl-spangled tanager (Tangara nigroviridis).

The beryl-spangled tanager, is a small songbird of the northern Andes.

Photo by Ben Knoot

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Beryl-spangled Tanager

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Beryl-spangled Tanager (Tangara nigroviridis), family Thraupidae, found in the Andes of South America

photograph by @robinmettler3

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Beryl-spangled Tanager

Sparkling Violetear

White necked Jacobin

Purple throated Woodstar

Picture: @afbirdspics

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With hundreds of highly prized species, bird tourism is thriving in the country – and farmers are increasingly turning their land into nature reserves

“Wildlife tourism is far more profitable than farming but that’s not the only reason we made the change,” says Ajila’s son, Luis Jr. “We wanted to save not just the umbrellabird, but all the special creatures here, and safeguard them for future generations.”

Projects such as this are eligible for funding from the Ecuadorian government. Launched in 2008, the Socio Bosque scheme offers “the poorest private and communal forest landowners annual payments for each hectare of forest cover maintained”, with sums of between $30 (£23) and $60 a hectare.

The Ajila family: Luis Jr, Alejandra and Luis Sr. Photograph: Dr Stephen Moss

But the income provided by birders alone has been enough to propel some farmers to take up the nature reserve model.A few years ago, Favián Luna decided to convert his 120-hectare tomato farm in the Tandayapa Valley, north-west of Quito, into a cloud-forest reserve and lodge called Alambi Reserve. Visitors go to photograph many species of hummingbirds, including the Andean emerald, native to the Chocó bioregion of the Ecuadorian Andes.

Nearby, at Mashpi Amagusa, former farmers Doris Villalbaand Sergio Basantes have created a reserve, lodge and garden, which attracts 260 species of sought-after birds. Highlights include glistening-green, flame-faced and beryl-spangled tanagers, and the rare, endemic rose-faced parrot.

At Finca La Victoriana in Pichincha, the owner Jacqui bought the house and land, and began to reforest the site while growing crops to feed herself. But during lockdown, when she was stuck in nearby Quito, all her crops were stolen. She was saved from having to sell up by a visiting friend, who heard an unusual sound from lower down the valley and realised this was one of South America’s most charismatic birds: the Andean cock-of-the-rock.

Male Andean cocks-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) lekking to attract a mate. Photograph: Jiri Hrebicek/Alamy

Since 2005, Ángel Paz and his younger brother Rodrigo have transformed their former dairy farm in Mindo into a bird reserve. At first, things didn’t go to plan: it took a month for the first visitor to arrive, and he paid just $10 for a four-hour tour. Since then, however, thousands of people have made the pilgrimage.

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Some of my old bird art, circa 2015-16.

Arctic Tern

Green-throated Tanager

Beryl-spangled Tanager

Bluethroat

Purple-throated Mountain Gems

Lilac-breasted roller

Snowy Plover

Spangled Cotinga

Narcissus Flycatcher

Zebra Finch

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Beryl-spangled tanager.

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Tangara nigroviridis / Tángara berlina / Beryl-spangled Tanager by Félix Uribe Via Flickr: Sonsón, Antioquia, Colombia

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IMG_2279 Beryl-spangled Tanager by Sue Bishop Via Flickr: san Tadeo,Pichincha province,Ecuador

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Beryl Spangled Tanager by djlparent99 http://ift.tt/2hL7irf

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🔥 Beryl-spangled tanager, a small song birb from Andes 🐦

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Beryl-spangled Tanager

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Beryl-spangled Tanager (Tangara nigroviridis), family Thraupidae, found on the Eastern Slope of the Andes Mountains in South America

photograph by @afbirdspics

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Beryl-spangled tanager, a small song birb from the Andes. via /r/cute https://ift.tt/3ajOhGT