BLACK-CRESTED COQUETTE – (Species Account Weblog #32)
Birds & Birding in Costa Rica: – Costa Rica’s nationwide motto and tourism slogan, “La Pura Vida” loosely interprets to Reside Life or Get pleasure from Life. With over 900 chook species recorded right here, there may be actually tons to take pleasure in! A Reflections of the Pure World Weblog Submit Sequence by Jim Acquire
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Lophornis helenae
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Black-crested Coquette
Discovered from southeastern Mexico to japanese Costa Rica, Black-crested is the one species of coquette to inhabit the Atlantic slope of Center America. Male Black-crested Coquettes are characterised by their inexperienced throat and crown, the latter topped by a wispy black crest; the bronzy breast band; and elongated black-and-buff cheek feathers. Like all coquettes, the females are decidedly much less ‘fancy-looking’ creatures, missing the inexperienced throat, and the cheek and crest adornments. Each sexes have the slim white rump band that’s typical of the genus. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
Over the course of the two weeks we had been in Costa Rica I used to be lucky to document 36 species of hummingbirds. This species was on the prime of my record of most needed, simply behind Snowcap. We had been lucky to see them feeding on the verbena with each a female and male Snowcap at Rancho Naturalista. We additionally noticed them in the direction of the top of our journey at Arenal Observatory.
PHOTO GALLERY
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