The Green-Headed Tanager Is A Gorgeous Bird (Amazing 10 Photos)
Strikingly beautiful multicolored Tanager is small (Length: 13 cm, Weight: 16-20 g) colorful and it is usually found in humid Atlantic forest and can be common in orchards, parks, and gardens, even near human settlements. And also, it frequents the forest borders and the clearings where it finds some trees and shrubs, and also the second growths.
The Green-headed Tanager is a small colourful bird which frequents mainly the humid Atlantic forest. And contrary to we could think, its flashy plumage is a good camouflage among the vegetation. The adult male shows bright complex plumage. Head, nape and chin are bright aquamarine-green. A pale yellow-green broad band crosses the nape and the upper mantle, and extends around on the neck sides to the throat. Back and scapulars are black. The rump is orange-yellow whereas the uppertail-coverts are bright apple-green. The tail is black with pale green edges at base, turning turquoise-blue distally. The upperwing-coverts are dark violet-blue. The flight feathers are black with broad pale green edges.