Fairy Tail (Violet-tailed Sylph)

The name for this otherwise hummingbird derives from the 16th century writings of Paracelsus who tagged air spirits (one of his four elemental beings) as sylphs. By that reasoning, perhaps all hummers should be called sylphs, but rare would be another sylph with such a spectacular tail. Hanging out near the flowers and feeders at Balcón Tumpiki in northwest Ecuador.

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