![[:en]Bird White-bellied Mountain-gem[:es]Ave Colibrí Montañés Vientriblanco[:]](https://i1.wp.com/www.birdwatchingcostarica.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/colibri-montanes-vientriblanco.jpg?resize=500%2C370&ssl=1)
The White-bellied Mountain-gem (Lampornis hemileucus) lives in Costa Rica and west Panama. It prefers canopy and edges of wet forests, ranging down to shrub level in open understory and at gasps. Its size is of 10 cm (4 inches) in height and 6.2 g in weight.
Its crown, face, and chin are glittering green. Above bronzy-green, and upper tail-coverts and tail bronze. Below white, spotted with green laterally. Center of throat violet, bill black, and feet dusky-flesh. Eats epiphytic Ericaceae.
![[:en]Bird Purple-throated Mountain-gem[:es]Ave Colibrí Montañés Gorgimorado[:]](https://i0.wp.com/www.birdwatchingcostarica.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/colibri-montanes-gorgimorado-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&ssl=1)
The Purple-throated Mountain-gem (Lampornis calolaemus) inhabit from south Nicaragua to west Panama. This animal prefers forested areas in steeply sloping, mainly in canopy but moves down to shrub level freely at edges and breaks, and second growth or semi-open. Matures are 10 cm (4 inches) in height and 6 g in weight.
Its crown is glittering pale blue-green. Rest of upperparts are bright bronze-green, gorget purple, and chest glittering green to dusky green. Belly gray, bill black, and feet dusky. Visits flowers of epiphytic Ericaceae and Gesneriaceae.
![[:en]Bird White-throated Mountain-gem[:es]Ave Colibrí Montañés Coligris[:]](https://i1.wp.com/www.birdwatchingcostarica.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/colibri-montanes-coligris.jpg?resize=500%2C370&ssl=1)
![[:en]Bird Magenta-throated Woodstar[:es]Ave Estrellita Gorgimorada[:]](https://i2.wp.com/www.birdwatchingcostarica.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/estrellita-gorgimorada-.jpg?resize=341%2C370&ssl=1)
The Magenta-throated Woodstar (Calliphlox bryantae) lives in Costa Rica and in west Panama. They prefer forest edge and clearings, scrubby pastures, second growth, and semi-open. Its measures are of 9 cm (3 inches) in height and 3.5 g in weight.
Males are above bronze-green, with a conspicuous white collar across foreneck. Chest and sides green. Bill and feet black. Females are above like male, with throat buffy. This bird visits flowering herbs, shrubs and trees.
The Barred Becard (Pachyramphus versicolor) resides from Costa Rica to northwest Ecuador and north Bolivia. Its natural habits are in middle and upper levels of highland forest, along edges and in nearby semi-open. Its size is of 12 cm (4 inches) in length and 14 g in weight.
Its pileum, hindneck, and back are glossy black. Rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail are slate. Sides of head, neck, and throat are greenish-yellow. Upper mandible black, lower blush-gray, and black legs. They feed on insects and small fruits.
![[:en]Bird Ruby-throated Hummingbird[:es]Ave Colobrí Garganta de Rubí[:]](https://i0.wp.com/www.birdwatchingcostarica.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/colibri-garganta-de-rubi.jpg?resize=415%2C370&ssl=1)
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) breeds in east North America, and in winters resides from northwest Mexico and south Texas to Costa Rica. Its place is in brushy second growth and deciduous forest, occasionally gallery forest, also flowering hedges, shade trees in coffee plantations and rural dooryards. Matures are 8 cm (3 inches) in height and 2.7 g in weight.
Above bronzy-green, and most of the underparts are grayish-white spotted with green laterally. Bill and feet black. Visits flowers of a variety of herbs, shrubs, vines, and trees.
The Cinnamon Becard (Pachyramphus cinnamomeus) lives from southeast Mexico to northwest Ecuador and northwest Venezuela. Its place is in edges and breaks, along rivers and streams, mangroves, open woodland, and semi-open. Adults are 14 cm (5 inches) in height and 22 g in weight.
Both sexes are rufous. Its upperparts are rufous to rufous-tawny. Below is cinnamon- buff to tawny-buff, tinged with rufous along breast. Upper mandible blackish, lower gray, and legs dark gray. It eats insects like beetles, katydids, homopterans, ants, caterpillars, also spiders, and fruits.
![[:en]Bird Volcano Hummingbird[:es]Ave Chispita Volcanera[:]](https://i1.wp.com/www.birdwatchingcostarica.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/chispita-volcanera-.jpg?resize=500%2C363&ssl=1)
The Volcano Hummingbird (Selasphorus flammula) lives in Costa Rica and west Panama. Its home is in open, brushy areas, páramo, and scrubby second growth. Its measures are 7.5 cm (3 inches) in height and 2.5 g in weight.
Above is bronzy-green, with central retrices mostly green to mostly black, edged and tipped with rufous. Gorget rose-red, mauve-purplish, grayish-purple, or purplish-green. Below mostly white, with bill and feet black. Visits a wide variety of insect-pollinated flowers like Fuchsia, Castilleja, Salvia, Vaccinium, Rubus, and Miconia.