GREEN-CROWNED BRILLIANT – (Species Account Weblog #33)
Birds & Birding in Costa Rica: – Costa Rica’s nationwide motto and tourism slogan, “La Pura Vida” loosely interprets to Dwell Life or Get pleasure from Life. With over 900 fowl species recorded right here, there may be actually heaps to get pleasure from! A Reflections of the Pure World Weblog Submit Collection by Jim Acquire
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Heliodoxa jacula
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Inexperienced-crowned Good
Pretty giant hummingbird, glossy and long-tailed with straight invoice. Male is solely emerald inexperienced with small blue throat patch solely seen at some angles. Feminine has noticed inexperienced breast; notice conspicuous white mustache stripe and white spot behind eye. It’s domestically widespread and readily seen in forest and adjoining human-altered habitats from the foothills to the highlands, the place it often visits synthetic feeders. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
We noticed 5 of those all-over emerald inexperienced hummingbirds whereas on the Galeria de Colibrí y Soda Cinchona – Mirador San Fernando, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica. Like many hummingbird species, the Inexperienced-crowned Good is poly-morphic with very totally different types of 1) Grownup Male, 2) Grownup Feminine and three) Immature Male.
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