FIERY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD – (Species Account Weblog #36)
Birds & Birding in Costa Rica: – Costa Rica’s nationwide motto and tourism slogan, “La Pura Vida” loosely interprets to Reside Life or Take pleasure in Life. With over 900 hen species recorded right here, there may be actually heaps to take pleasure in! A Reflections of the Pure World Weblog Put up Sequence by Jim Acquire
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Panterpe insignis
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Fiery-throated Hummingbird
In case you see the throat in good mild, there isn’t a mistaking this magnificence: no different hummingbird combines each shade of the rainbow on the throat and breast. The Fiery-throated Hummingbird is the only real member of the genus Panterpe and is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
Seen solely at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge, Talamanca Highlands (Elevation 8962’), Costa Rica. It was a lightweight rain, overcast morning providing few shoys of the unbelievable pyrotechnics on its throat, however I largely obtained it. Laborious to imagine that in actual life it was much more astonishing than my photographs!
PHOTO GALLERY
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