How Big is a Glissening-green Tanager?

Just how big, or small, is a bird in a photograph? This is really hard to determine unless you know birds to start with. Even if you know birds, you still can be left wondering, like with this Glissening-green Tanager, an inhabitant of the Andean Highlands of Ecuador. You might know the Summer or Western Tanager and assume the Glissening-green is about the same size. You might be surprised when you scroll down the page to see just how tiny they are! Yeah, the size of about a couple of grapes. They’re pretty small, but what they lack in size they more than make up for in color. When that kiss of flash touches them, you can see why they are called Glissening-green. And with the grapes, you know the answer to how big is a Glissening-green Tanager?