PURPLE-CROWNED FAIRY – (Species Account Weblog #29)
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TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Heliothryx barroti
Because of their inquisitive nature, Purple-crowned Fairies are fairly straightforward to look at. These busy hummingbirds typically pause in entrance of a human viewers earlier than going again to foraging. They ceaselessly open and shut their lengthy tails and cock them up when hovering at flowers. Purple-crowned Fairies routinely pierce the bottom of flowers with their straight, pointed payments and steal nectar with out really pollinating the plant. These elegant hummingbirds are pure white under and have a darkish masks via the attention. They inhabit humid and moist forests and second progress woodlands and are sometimes pretty aggressive regardless that they don’t seem to be territorial. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
We noticed this species within the Caribbean Lowlands and decrease montane areas at Chilamate Rainforest Eco Retreat and alongside the highway to the dam at Arenal. My first expertise with this hummingbird was with Wealthy Brown whereas we walaked across the musuem grounds early one morning at Tikal, Guatemala. The underside picture under really exhibits two of them in shut proximity.
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