Scientific name: Ramphocelus nigrogularis
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae

The Masked Crimson Tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swamps and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

It feeds primarily on fruit, leaves, buds and nectar. This species likes fruits of cecropia trees; they perch upside down on spikes and rip off pieces of pulp. Important in seed dispersal in forest, as apparently Cecropia seeds germinate better after passage through bird intestines. Lives in pairs of groups of three to twelve in low or mid-levels of forest in forest edges; often associated with olive-green tanager.

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