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Green-crowned Brilliant Male
Heliodoxa jacula
9.77578, -84.0546
Field Notes
Description:
The male Green-crowned Brilliant is 13 cm long and weighs 9.5 g. It is mainly bronze-green with a glittering green crown, forehead, throat and breast. It has a white spot behind the eye, a small violet throat patch, white thighs, and a deeply forked blue-black tail.
Habitat:
Is a large robust hummingbird that is a resident breeder in the highlands from Costa Rica to western Ecuador. This hummingbird inhabits wet mountain forests including edges, gaps and tall second growth. It occurs typically between 700 m and 2000 m in altitude, mainly on the Caribbean slopes.
These were seen in Selvatura, Santa Elena.
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PublishedMay 14, 2014
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