TALAMANCA HUMMINGBIRD – (Species Account Weblog #34)
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TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Eugenes spectabilis
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Talamanca Hummingbird
Talamanca Hummingbird is a big, long-billed hummingbird that happens within the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Each sexes are primarily inexperienced above, with a outstanding white postocular spot. The male additionally has a glittering violet forecrown. The sexes have strikingly completely different patterns on the underparts. The male has a glittering bluish inexperienced gorget and a darkish inexperienced breast, whereas the feminine is uniformly grayish white under. (Previously conspecific with Rivoli’s Hummingbird as Magnificent Hummingbird.) (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
Sadly, I solely managed photographs of a feminine as I used to be obsessive about making an attempt to {photograph} a Lengthy-tailed Silky-Flycatcher. This species is bodily an identical to the Rivoli’s Hummingbird of Arizona and Mexico.
PHOTO GALLERY
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