So, what’s in a name? On my first visit to Costa Rica in 2015, I photographed the Cherrie’s Tanager, a striking black bird with a red back. On my most recent trip to Costa Rica, in 2025, I photographed what my guide book said was a Scarlet-rumped Tanager. I thought it looked familiar to me because it is such a striking bird but thought it must not be the same bird because of the different name. Well, I was wrong. And, I was right … at least in thinking that it was the same bird because it is! Apparently, ten years ago, it was known as the Cherrie’s Tanager and in 2018, the Cherrie’s Tanager and the Passerini’s Tanager were lumped back into a single species, the Scarlet-rumped Tanager, which they were originally named before being split into two species at some point in the past. So, as Juliet once so succinctly spoke, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” I guess you could say the same here and with apologies to William Shakespeare, “What’s in a name? That which we now call a Scarlet-rumped Tanager always had a red rump!”