MANGROVE HUMMINGBIRD – (Species Account Weblog #55)
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 chicken species recorded right here, there may be definitely heaps to take pleasure in! A Reflections of the Pure World Weblog Put up Sequence by Jim Acquire
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Amazilia boucardi
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Mangrove Hummingbird
The Mangrove Hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi) is a small/medium-sized hummingbird and is discovered solely alongside the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, most frequently in or close to mangrove timber. Male has a glittering blue-green head and throat contrasting with a whitish stomach. The bottom of the invoice is pink. Feminine is greenish above with principally white underparts; observe her darkish forked tail. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
This endangered endemic to the Pacific Coast mangroves of Costa Rica was a excessive worth goal on our boat journey on the Tárcoles River close to Carara NP. We had been lucky to see one however not lucky sufficient to get a good picture of it.
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