Paradise Tanager
The paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15 cm (5.3 to 6"). It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage.The vivid colours of the paradise tanager have been linked to underlying achromatic feather layers (black or white) that enhance the brilliance of structural colours. Depending on subspecies, the behind is yellow and red or all red. The beak is black and the legs are grey. It is native to the Amazon rainforest. Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, the species can be found in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Chile.
Yasuní National Park
Aguarico, Ecuador
+132 birds+30 mammals
Where the Napo and Curaray rivers carve through Ecuador’s vast Amazonian lowlands, one of Earth’s most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems sprawls […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKRío Negro-Sopladora National Park
Chontal, Ecuador
+35 birds
Where granite gorges plunge beneath pristine cloud forest canopy, the Río Negro-Sopladora watershed carves one of Ecuador’s most dramatic landscapes. […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKPodocarpus National Park
Zamora, Ecuador
+94 birds+7 mammals
Where the Andes fracture into a thousand misty valleys, Ecuador’s southern highlands harbour one of the continent’s most biodiverse protected […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSumaco Napo-Galeras National Park
Loreto, Ecuador
+113 birds+19 mammals
Where the eastern Andean slopes plunge into Amazonian lowlands, pristine cloud forests and montane rainforests cloak the volcanic Sumaco massif […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKNatural Sierra de Chiribiquete National Park
Solano, Colombia
+130 birds+23 mammals
Where tabletop mountains rise abruptly from the Colombian Amazon, a landscape of almost alien majesty unfolds across nearly 87,000 square […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKNatural Serranía de los Churumbelos National Park
Santa Rosa, Colombia
+145 birds+15 mammals
Where the Andes’ western cordillera surrenders to the Pacific watershed, a fortress of granite peaks and cloud-draped valleys rises across […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMapinguari National Park
Brazil
+120 birds+30 mammals
Where the Amazon’s southwestern frontier meets the Xingu Basin, vast tracts of pristine tropical forest rise and fall across nearly […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSerra do Divisor National Park
Brazil
+132 birds+30 mammals
Where the Ucayali River carves its ancient path through northwestern Brazil, rainforest canopy rises in unbroken waves across nearly 27,000 […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKOtishi National Park
Río Tambo, Peru
+21 birds+3 mammals
Where the eastern slopes of the Andes plunge into the Amazon basin, a wilderness of extraordinary biological complexity unfolds across […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKYanachaga–chemillén National Park
Palcazu, Peru
+141 birds+14 mammals
Where the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes plunge into the Amazon basin, montane cloud forest clings to precipitous terrain […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBahuaja Sonene National Park
San Pedro de Putina Punco, Peru
+132 birds+30 mammals
Where granite ridges rise above the confluence of Peru’s Río Heath and Río Tambopata, one of the Amazon’s most pristine […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKTingo Maria National Park
Mariano Dámaso Beraún, Peru
+48 birds
Where the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes descend into the Amazon basin, a 84-square-kilometre sanctuary of extraordinary biodiversity unfolds […]
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