Every day fresh, ripe bananas are put on a feeder along the fence line of the garden by the owner of Kumanday Lodge which is situated on the edge of the village of La Florida in Colombia. The village is at 1,670 metres (5,480 ft) on the western side of the Cordillera Central of the northern Andes.
Birders visiting the Otún Quimbaya reserve stay at the hotel and are soon entertained by fruit-eating birds at the feeder, including a group of Blue-grey Tanagers, Tangarus (previously Thraupis) episcopus. The bird is common in its range (northern South America and north to Mexico).
The Blue-grey is a true tanager (family Thraupidae). Many of what were called tanagers because they were brightly coloured and mainly ate fruit have been shown not to be tanagers at all. Some have turned out to be cardinals (Cardinalidae), others true finches (Fringillidae).
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