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The male is a visual spectacle: a velvety, jet-black body sharply punctuated by a brilliant, glowing yellow rump, lower back, and undertail coverts, with a pale, silvery-blue bill that stands out against its dark face. A unique characteristic is the species\u2019 vivid social behavior\u2014they often travel in noisy, mixed-species flocks, their bright rumps flashing like beacons in the understory. Females are more subdued, with olive-brown upperparts and a muted yellow rump, but share the male\u2019s distinctive, pale bill. Special features include their preference for foraging on fruits and insects at forest edges, and their role as key seed dispersers in their tropical ecosystems, making them both a visual delight and an ecological linchpin.","animal_habitat":"The Lemon-rumped Tanager is primarily found in lowland and foothill regions along the Pacific slope of Central America, ranging from southwestern Costa Rica through Panama and into the extreme northwestern corner of South America (western Colombia). Its preferred habitats include humid to semi-humid forest edges, secondary growth, clearings, and shrubby areas often near watercourses, as well as plantations and gardens. It avoids the interior of dense primary forest, instead thriving in disturbed, open, or transitional environments from sea level up to around 1,200 meters in elevation.","animal_behavior_and_reproduction":"The Lemon-rumped Tanager is highly social, typically found in small, loose flocks of 3 to 10 individuals that forage together in the canopy. During the breeding season, which varies regionally but often coincides with the rainy season, males engage in elaborate courtship displays that include puffing their bright yellow rump feathers, bowing, and chasing females through the branches while singing a sharp, chattering song. Pairs form monogamous bonds for a single breeding cycle, though they may re-pair with different mates in subsequent seasons. The female alone builds a cup-shaped nest from moss, leaves, and spider webs, usually placed in a tree fork or dense shrub. She incubates a clutch of 2 to 3 pale blue eggs with dark speckles for about 12 to 14 days, while the male defends the territory and brings food to the nest. Both parents feed the chicks, which fledge after roughly 15 to 17 days. A unique reproductive strategy is their use of communal roosting sites outside of breeding season, where multiple adults gather, possibly to share information about food sources or predators.","diet":"The Lemon-rumped Tanager is primarily frugivorous, with a diet heavily centered on a variety of small, soft fruits and berries, such as those from melastomes, mistletoe, and figs. It supplements this fruit base with a significant amount of arthropods, including insects like beetles, caterpillars, and ants, as well as spiders, which it often gleans from foliage or catches in short, agile sallies. An interesting aspect of its feeding behavior is its tendency to forage in mixed-species flocks, often following army ant swarms alongside other tanagers and antbirds to capture insects flushed by the ants. Additionally, they have been observed visiting flowering trees to drink nectar, though this is a less common component of their diet compared to fruit and protein-rich prey.","colors":"The male Lemon-rumped Tanager has a velvety black body with a bright, lemon-yellow lower back and rump, and a white patch on the wing. The female is duller, mostly olive-brown above and pale yellow below, with a sooty-black bill that is pale blue-gray at the base. Its vivid yellow rump provides contrast against dark foliage, but it lacks specific camouflage adaptations, relying instead on canopy-dwelling behavior.","fun_facts":"Despite its name, the lemon-rumped tanager\u2019s most flamboyant feature isn\u2019t its yellow rump\u2014males flash a brilliant, metallic-red throat and chest that looks almost wet with color, a trick of light refraction from microscopic feather structures. They are notorious for \u201canting,\u201d a quirky behavior where they pick up ants and rub them through their feathers, using the insects\u2019 formic acid as a natural insecticide and fungicide. This species also engages in \u201callopreening\u201d between mates and even unrelated flock members, a social bonding ritual where they meticulously groom each other\u2019s heads and necks, which is unusual among tanagers.","conservation_status_&_efforts":"The Lemon-rumped Tanager is currently listed as Least Concern by the IUCN, though its population trend is described as decreasing. Primary threats include habitat loss from deforestation and agricultural expansion, particularly in lowland areas of its range from Panama to western Ecuador. Capture for the pet trade also poses a localized risk, though the species remains relatively common in intact forest edges and secondary growth. Conservation efforts are largely passive, focused on protecting key habitats within existing reserves and national parks, such as those in the Choc\u00f3-Dari\u00e9n region. No specific captive breeding or reintroduction programs are widely implemented, but ongoing monitoring by organizations like BirdLife International helps track population shifts and prioritize areas for sustainable land-use planning.","endemic":false,"migratory":false,"nocturnal":false,"conservation_status":"Least Concern","ebird_link":{"url":"https:\/\/ebird.org\/species\/leartan1","title":"View on Ebird","target":"_blank"},"animal_related_page":{"url":"https:\/\/animalia.bio\/lemon-rumped-tanager","title":"View on Animalia","target":"_blank"},"fauna_family":"Thraupidae","fauna_known_nicknames":"Lemon-rumped Tanager, Yellow-rumped Tanager, Flame-rumped Tanager","fauna_average_length":"16\u201318 cm \/ 6.3\u20137.1 in","fauna_average_weight":"28\u201338 g \/ 1.0\u20131.3 oz","fauna_wingspan":"N\/A","fauna_key_physical_feature":"Male has velvety black body with a bright lemon-yellow rump and upper tail coverts","fauna_primary_diet":"Primarily Frugivore, also insects","fauna_geographical_range":"Pacific slope of Costa Rica and western Panama","fauna_preferred_habitat":"Humid lowland and foothill forest edges, secondary growth, and clearings","fauna_social_structure":"Social, often seen in pairs or small flocks","fauna_breeding_site":"Open cup nests in bushes or trees","fauna_conservation_status":"Least Concern (LC)","fauna_population_trend":"Stable","fauna_spanish_name":"Tangara lomilim\u00f3n","fauna_french_name":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fauna\/265369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fauna"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fauna"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=265369"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=265369"},{"taxonomy":"fauna-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fauna-group?post=265369"},{"taxonomy":"fauna-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fauna-type?post=265369"},{"taxonomy":"star-rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remote-expeditions.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/star-rating?post=265369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}