VOLCANO HUMMINGBIRD – (Species Account Weblog #41)
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TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Selasphorus flammula
BIRDS & BIRDING IN COSTA RICA WEBSITE LINK: Volcano Hummingbird
The Volcano Hummingbird is restricted to the Costa Rica and Panama Highlands Endemic Chicken Space, the place it’s usually frequent in highland pastures and open grassland with scrub, often above 2000 m elevation. This tiny hummingbird is especially inexperienced above, with a superb wine-colored gorget within the male (changed by darkish recognizing within the feminine), a white breast band, and greenish (males) or pale rufous (females) over the remainder of the underparts. The tail is barely forked in each sexes, extra noticeably so in males. (from Birds of the World)
OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
We noticed this tiny hummingbird solely on the greater elevations within the Talamanca Mountains. It appeared pretty frequent and by no means shy across the feeding stations at Miriam’s Restaurant and the Paraiso Quetzal Lodge.
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