[:en]Bird Snowy-bellied Hummingbird[:es]Ave Amazilia Vientriblanca[:]
30 Jun

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

The Snowy-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia edward) resides in Costa Rica and Panama. It prefers brushy savanna, scrubby woodlands, coffee plantations, roadside trees, gardens, and forest edge. Its size is of 9 cm (3 inches) in height and 4.6 g in weight.

Above is bronzy-green, shading to bronze on lower back. Purplish-bronze on rump and upper tail-coverts. Tail purplish-black. Throat and breast bright green. Feet blackish and crissum purplish. This bird visits flowers of shrubs and trees.

[:en]Bird Rufous-tailed Hummingbird[:es]Ave Amazilia Rabirufa[:]
30 Jun

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

The Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) ranges from northeast Mexico to west Venezuela and west Ecuador. It frequents non-forested areas, like open scrub, second growth, thickety edges, semi-open, coffee plantations, gardens, dooryards, and humid forest along breaks and gaps. Its measures are 10 cm (4 inches) in height and 5.2 g in weight.

Above is bronzy-green, with its upper and lower tail-coverts and tail deep rufous. Throat and chest glittering green. Lower breast and sides bronzy. Feet dusky, belly grayish-buff, and bill mostly red. Feeds on Hamelia, Heliconia, Cephaelis, Stachytarpheta, and banana.

[:en]Bird Cinnamon Hummingbird[:es]Ave Amazilia Canela[:]
30 Jun

Cinnamon Hummingbird

The Cinnamon Hummingbird (Amazilia rutila) is found from west Mexico to Costa Rica. It prefers deciduous forest, brushy savanna, edges, and second growth. Adults are 9.5 cm (3 inches) in height and 4.8 g in weight.

Above is bronzy-green, and its upper tail-coverts edged with rufous. Retrices chestnut-rufous, edged with bronze at tip. Entire underparts cinnamon-rufous, palest on throat. Bill of male red whit black tip, of female with upper mandible mostly black. Feet black. Visits flowering trees, shrubs, and epiphytes.

21 Dec

Sapphire-throated Hummingbird

The Sapphire-throated Hummingbird (Lepidopyga coeruleogularis) inhabits from Costa Rica and west Panama to north Colombia. Its place is in open, and scrubby vegetation, often near the coast. Its size is of 9 cm (3 inches) in length and 3.7 g in weight.

Above green, more bronzy on tail-coverts and central retrices. Throat and chest violet-blue. Rest of underparts green to blue-green. Feet black, and bill black except basal half of lower mandible red. It pollinates flowers.

[:en]Bird Blue-throated Goldentail[:es]Ave Colibrí Colidorado[:]
30 Jun

Blue-throated Goldentail

The Blue-throated Goldentail (Hilocharys eliciae) resides from south Mexico to east Panama. Its natural habits are in humid areas open woodlands, semi-open, and tall second growth, and in dry regions prefers evergreen gallery forests. Matures are 9 cm (3 inches) in height and 3.7 g in weight.

Above bronzy-green, shading to purplish-bronze on upper tail-coverts. Throat and chest deep blue to purplish-blue. Lower breast green, and belly grayish-buff. Bill red with black tip, and feet dusky. Visits Heliconia, and Stachytarpheta.