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Green-crowned Brilliant Female

Heliodoxa jacula

Photo by The MnMs
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Description:

The female is 12 cm long and weighs 8 g. She differs from the male in that she has green-spotted white underparts, a white spot behind the eye and a white stripe below the eye, and a white-cornered shallowly-forked black tail.. Young birds resemble the adult of the same sex, but are duller, bronze-tinged below and have buff throats.

Habitat:

Selvatura, Sta Elena.

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Green-crowned Brilliant

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PublishedMay 14, 2014

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