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19-FEB-2009 Michael Todd

Azure-rumped Tanager

El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve (Limonar area); Chiapas, MX

We lucked up on a pair of these very local Tangara tanagers, and it was a frantic minute or so until every one of us finally laid eyes on one.

These are quite distant, but luckily about eye level as we looked into the top of a tree across a ravine. I can find very few shots of these birds online anywhere, so am pretty stoked to have gotten as good a shots as I did. The very unusual shade of blue was even more distinctive than I had imagined.

Canon EOS 50D ,Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM
1/100s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso800 full exif

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