PLAIN-CAPPED STARTHROAT – (Species Account Weblog #35)
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TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Heliomaster constantii
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Plain-capped Starthroat
These massive, aggressive hummingbirds are pretty drab in colour however have impressively lengthy, straight payments. Men and women are comparable and every have a white stripe beneath and behind the attention, a pinkish or orangish purple throat, a brief tail, and a white stripe on the rump. Plain-capped Starthroats dwell across the borders of arid or semiarid forests, in thorn forests, espresso plantations, second development, and in partially open areas with scattered vegetation. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
A big, long-billed, however in any other case unremarkable hummingbird that we noticed at El Toucanet Lodge close to Copey de Dota within the Talamanca highlands. This was the one location we noticed them at.
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