Eric Gofreed
Well-Known Member
It’s Winged Wednesday, where feathers, flutters, and flight steal the show! Whether they’re soaring, hovering, gliding, or simply posing where the light is best, we want to see your favorite winged wonders. Birds, bugs, bats, butterflies, dragonflies, or anything else with wings—if it flies, it qualifies.
My contribution this week: Tanagers.
If birds were allowed to design themselves, they might end up looking like tanagers.
Tanagers seem to approach color with very little restraint. Blues, greens, reds, yellows, oranges, turquoise, black—sometimes all on the same bird. They often look less like wildlife and more like somebody misplaced a tropical paint set.
All of the tanagers in this collection come from Central and South America, where subtlety appears to have lost an argument long ago.
Flame-faced Tanager—If tropical fruit could fly.
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager—Part mountain bird, part misplaced sky.
Golden-hooded Tanager — The tropics remain opposed to beige.
Lacrimose Tanager — The colors are cheerful. The expression remains unconvinced.
Multicolored Tanager — Looks like a rainbow applied for a bird license.
My contribution this week: Tanagers.
If birds were allowed to design themselves, they might end up looking like tanagers.
Tanagers seem to approach color with very little restraint. Blues, greens, reds, yellows, oranges, turquoise, black—sometimes all on the same bird. They often look less like wildlife and more like somebody misplaced a tropical paint set.
All of the tanagers in this collection come from Central and South America, where subtlety appears to have lost an argument long ago.
Flame-faced Tanager—If tropical fruit could fly.
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager—Part mountain bird, part misplaced sky.
Golden-hooded Tanager — The tropics remain opposed to beige.
Lacrimose Tanager — The colors are cheerful. The expression remains unconvinced.
Multicolored Tanager — Looks like a rainbow applied for a bird license.
