21 Dec

Ocellated Crake

The Ocellated Crake (Microygia schomburgkii) lives from Costa Rica to east Peru, Bolivia, and southeast Brazil. This bird prefers dense grassland and savannas. Its measures are 15 cm (6 inches) in height and 32 g in weight.

Throat white, and belly whitish. Face, sides of neck, breast, sides, and crissum are rich buff. Forehead rufous, and upperparts buffy-brown, thickly spotted with white. Iris red, bill black, and legs salmon. This small animal feeds on beetles, ants, grasshoppers, and roaches.

[:en]Bird White-necked Jacobin[:es]Ave Jacobino Nuquiblanco[:]
30 Jun

White-necked Jacobin

The White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) resides from south Mexico to west Ecuador, Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil. It frequents mostly forest canopy or treetops in semi-open, and often lower at edges, clearings, and in second growth. Its size is of 12 cm (4 inches) in height and 7 g in weight.

Its head, neck, and throat are deep blue. Rest of upperparts and central retrices are bright green. Nape and belly white. Bill and feet black. Both sexes visit trees flowers, epiphytes, and Heliconia.

[:en]Bird White-tipped Sicklebill[:es]Ave Pico de hoz[:]
30 Jun

White-tipped Sicklebill

The White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) ranges from Costa Rica to west Ecuador. Its place is in forest understory, adjacent second growth, and along forest edges. Its size is of 13 cm (5 inches) in height and 11 g in weight.

Above is dark bronzy-green. Its feathers of rump and upper tail-coverts fringed with buffy-white. Throat and breast blackish, broadly streaked with white to buffy. Bill black except basal half of lower mandible bright yellow, and feet flesh-horn. It visits scattered flowers.

[:en]Bird Bronzy Hermit[:es]Ave Ermitaño Bronceado[:]
20 Jun

Bronzy Hermit

The Bronzy Hermit (Glaucis aenea) inhabits from east Nicaragua to west Panama, and in Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador. It lives in thickety second growth and streamsides, swampy areas with tall grass or herbaceous growth and forest edge. Adults are 10.5 cm (4 inches) in height and 5.3 g in weight.

Above is bronzy-green, and upper tail coverts fringed with pale buff. Crown more brownish. Below pale cinnamon-rufous, brightest on chest and sides. Feet flesh-orange, upper mandible black, and lower dull yellowish with dusky tip. Visits scattered or crumpled flowers like Heliconia and banana.

[:en]Bird Tody Motmot[:es]Ave Momoto Enano[:]
20 Jun

Tody Motmot

The Tody Motmot (Hylomanes momotula) is found from south Mexico to west Colombia. It frequents shady understory of moist evergreen forest, along dark ravines in lowlands. Adults are 16 cm (6 inches) in height and 32 g in weight.

Its forehead and forecrown are olive-green, shading to dull dark rufous over rest of crown and hindneck. Rest of upperparts are dark dull green. Wings and tail are more olive. Cheeks, throat, and breast olive-green, tinged or mixed with brownish. Lower breast tinged with bluish, and feet pale olive. Upper mandible black, and lower horn-color. They eat butterflies and drangonflies.

[:en]Bird Band-tailed Barbthroat[:es]Ave Ermitaño Barbudo[:]
29 Jun

Band-tailed Barbthroat

The Band-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes ruckeri) lives from southeast Guatemala to west Ecuador and west Venezuela. This bird prefers forest understory, edges, and old second growth. Its measures are 11 cm (4 inches) in height and 5.8 g in weight.

Above is bronzy-green. Lores, throat, and auriculars dusky, and chest orange-rufous. Rest of underparts grayish-buff. Upper mandible black, and lower yellow and tipped with black. Legs flesh-yellow. This bird visit mostly scattered flowers, especially those of Costus, Heliconia, and banana.