The
hooded mountain tanager (
Buthraupis montana) is a bird in the
tanager family, Thraupidae. The species is found in forest and woodland in the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, at altitudes between 1,800 and 3,000 metres (5,900 and 9,800 ft). It is one of the largest tanagers, at 23 centimetres (9.1 in) and 96 grams (3.4 oz), and has a black head and thighs, a blue black and bright yellow belly, with red eyes. This hooded mountain tanager of the subspecies
B. m. cucullata was photographed in Hacienda El Bosque, a wildlife reserve near
Manizales, Colombia.
Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
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