CINNAMON HUMMINGBIRD – (Species Account Weblog #53)
Birds & Birding in Costa Rica: – Costa Rica’s nationwide motto and tourism slogan, “La Pura Vida” loosely interprets to Stay Life or Take pleasure in Life. With over 900 chook species recorded right here, there’s actually heaps to get pleasure from! A Reflections of the Pure World Weblog Put up Sequence by Jim Acquire
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Amazilia rutila
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Cinnamon Hummingbird
The Cinnamon Hummingbird (Amazilia rutila) is a putting, medium-size hummingbird of dry tropical lowlands. Favors scrubby woodland and edge, gardens, semi-open areas with flowering bushes. Wholly cinnamon-colored underparts distinctive; additionally observe the intense pink invoice, tipped black (pink much less intensive on immatures). If seen solely from behind, could be confused with Buff-bellied and Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds, each of which present a inexperienced throat and chest when seen from the facet or entrance. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
My private “Lifer” Cinnamon Hummingbird was close to Rio Lagartos within the northern Yucatan Peninsula. In Costa Rica we noticed them within the low to mid-elevation areas close to the Caldera Mangroves (Espiritu) Puntarenas Province (north of the Tárcoles River) and once more on the Robleado Resort west of San José.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of this Weblog Sequence photographs (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by international locations.
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