White-lined Tanager (Tachyphonus rufus) |
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© Leo Olmtak | © Foek Chin Joe | © Louis des Tombe |
© Pieter Verheij | © Leo Olmtak | © Leo Olmtak |
© Leo Olmtak | © Jean-Louis Rousselle | © Ton Plug |
© Dominiek Plouvier |
White-lined Tanager: It is often seen in the gardens of Paramaribo. The white in the wings of the male is visible when it flies or unfolds its wings, but it can be invisible when it rests. The lower bill of the male is partly white. A photo of a male and female White-lined tanager, made by Leo Olmtak in his garden in Paramaribo in 2008, then a male White-lined Tanager, made by Foek Chin Joe in Suriname, one seen by Louis des Tombe in October 2007 and one by Pieter Verheij in January 2007. Then a female resting while making her nest and parents feeding their young, also in the garden of Leo Olmtak. And he made a video of the mother White-lined Tanager feeding her child. Jean-Louis rousselle mad a photo near Nieuw Amsterdam in November 2013. Dominiek Plouvier made the video of a singing White-lined Tanager. |
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Video recording of a White-lined Tanager © ; |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 629 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 150 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |