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Violet Sabrewing

Campylopterus hemileucurus

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Description:

Large hummingbird (15 cm and 11.5 g) native to southern Mexico and Central America as far south as Costa Rica and western Panama.

Habitat:

Cloud Forest

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Comments (97)
Liana
Jonathan, I got to see all four hummingbird species (Purple-throated Carib, Green-throated Carib, Blue-headed Hummingbird, and Antillean Crested Hummingbird) on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean - I'm slowly putting up pics of them!
Liana
Aaah...hummingbirds. I saw my very first hummingbirds on my recent holiday and they are sooo hard to photograph. Amazing pics Jonathan. Caught the detail and colours stunningly well! Thank you for sharing :)
The MnMs
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 :-)
rams4d
Beautiful, congrats !!!
Melodious
What a beautiful bird... great shots too!
MIAH
pretty I like the shiny colors :)
Noah Citizen aka Olivier
wow! What an amazing spotting! my daughter sitting right beside me is speechless since she saw that spotting. That is as well amazing!
Jonathan Sequeira
I saw your picture Jamie, it is nice too, and yes this was in Monteverde, This is a hummingbird that we find in different cloud forest thru the country
jamiehagwood
did u see it at the monteverde cloud forest reserve?
jamiehagwood
omg this so pretty! i saw these in costa rica and took some pics, but they def do not compare to this!
Jonathan Sequeira
Thanks for the comments and so glad you enjoy it, matimar and maggie
Jonathan Sequeira
Thanks so much , A pleasure and an honor to be part of all this project.
KarenL
Congratulations Jonathan, this beauty is featured in the Project Noah blog today! http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/28912814753/species-spotlight-hummingbirds
Jonathan Sequeira
I am sure You will... Africa has cool birds and wonderfull animals....

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PublishedJanuary 17, 2012

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