YELLOW-TUFTED DACNIS Male Dacnis egregia Perching on Porotón Flowers in Mindo in Northwestern Ecuador. Photo by Peter Wendelken.
YELLOW-TUFTED DACNIS Male Dacnis egregia. This male Yellow-tufted Dacnis Dacnis egregia is perching on a racime of cup-like flowers of the leguminous tree Erythrina megistophylla Diels, family Fabaceae, from which it has been drinking nectar beside the dirt road Vía Cunuco, about two miles north of Mindo, in northwestern Ecuador at 9:21 AM on July 20, 2020.
Erythrina megistophylla is ENDEMIC to Ecuador and has flowers adapted to pollination by passerine (perching) birds. We have observed a variety of passerine birds, as well as a number of hummingbird species, drinking nectar from these flowers. One of the common names of this tree is Porotón.
The Yellow-tufted Dacnis is a member of the tanager family Thraupidae and is found in western Ecuador and western Colombia. Some hold the view that the Yellow-tufted Dacnis should be considered a subspecies of the Black-faced Dacnis, to wit Dacnis lineata egregia.
Un macho del Dacnis Pechiamarillo Dacnis egregia está perchado sobre una inflorescencia de las flores del árbol Erythrina megistophylla Diels, familia Fabaceae, a la orilla de la Vía Cunuco unos 4 kilometros al norte de Mindo en el noroeste de Ecuador a las 9 y 21 de la mañana el 20 de julio de 2020. El macho ha pasado un rato bebiendo néctar de dichas flores.
For OPTIMAL DETAILED VIEWING of this nectar drinking Yellow-tufted Dacnis male, VIEW AT THE LARGEST SIZE (1488 x 1000) using this direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/51716...
YELLOW-TUFTED DACNIS Male Dacnis egregia Perching on Porotón Flowers in Mindo in Northwestern Ecuador. Photo by Peter Wendelken.
YELLOW-TUFTED DACNIS Male Dacnis egregia. This male Yellow-tufted Dacnis Dacnis egregia is perching on a racime of cup-like flowers of the leguminous tree Erythrina megistophylla Diels, family Fabaceae, from which it has been drinking nectar beside the dirt road Vía Cunuco, about two miles north of Mindo, in northwestern Ecuador at 9:21 AM on July 20, 2020.
Erythrina megistophylla is ENDEMIC to Ecuador and has flowers adapted to pollination by passerine (perching) birds. We have observed a variety of passerine birds, as well as a number of hummingbird species, drinking nectar from these flowers. One of the common names of this tree is Porotón.
The Yellow-tufted Dacnis is a member of the tanager family Thraupidae and is found in western Ecuador and western Colombia. Some hold the view that the Yellow-tufted Dacnis should be considered a subspecies of the Black-faced Dacnis, to wit Dacnis lineata egregia.
Un macho del Dacnis Pechiamarillo Dacnis egregia está perchado sobre una inflorescencia de las flores del árbol Erythrina megistophylla Diels, familia Fabaceae, a la orilla de la Vía Cunuco unos 4 kilometros al norte de Mindo en el noroeste de Ecuador a las 9 y 21 de la mañana el 20 de julio de 2020. El macho ha pasado un rato bebiendo néctar de dichas flores.
For OPTIMAL DETAILED VIEWING of this nectar drinking Yellow-tufted Dacnis male, VIEW AT THE LARGEST SIZE (1488 x 1000) using this direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/51716...