Walk into a sunlit banana plantation or a dense thicket along Costa Rica’s Caribbean slope, and you’ll quickly notice them—flashes of deep black and vibrant red darting through the foliage. Scarlet-rumped Tanager or Passerini’s Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii), is impossible to miss. These social birds move in noisy, energetic flocks, constantly chasing one another as if… Continue reading A Flash of Scarlet: Passerini’s Tanager in Costa Rica