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Fiery-throated Hummingbird (Colibrí, gorrión, colibrí garganta de fuego)

Panterpe insignis - Male

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Description:

This is a medium-sized hummingbird which breeds only in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama...

More data @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panterpe_insignis

And

http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/FMPro?-DB=ubipub.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-Format=/ubi…

Habitat:

This is a common to abundant bird of montane forest canopy above 1400 m, and also occurs in scrub at the woodland edges and clearings.

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Comments (10)

I would like to invite you to post your spottings of hummingbirds in the new mission for Hummingbirds of the New World: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1244396002 :-)
Fun fact! Although they are among the tiniest of all birds, hummingbirds have proportionately the largest brain of the bird kingdom, weighing in at over 4 % of their body weight. https://upload.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/a.10150595289465603.674700.10150120463815603/10154017125085603/?type=1&stream_ref=10
Those are some spectacular colors! Nice photo!
Just beautiful,super spotting Mario,congrats and thanks for sharing such a beauty :-)
Beautiful pictures mario.campos.sandoval
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PublishedApril 6, 2014

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