Shining Sunbeam
Parque Nacional Natural de los Nevados, Caldas, Colombia; 3500 meters above sea level.
Aglaeactis cupripennis
(Shining Sunbeam / Colibrí paramuno)
The Shining Sunbeam is a large, dark-brown hummingbird with a lilac-gold iridescent lower back and rump. Like other sunbeams, it has a proportionally short bill for a hummingbird. Found at high altitudes, the Shining Sunbeam inhabits semi-arid montane ridges and cloud forests. Most populations are altitudinal migrants, descending seasonally to lower elevations. The Shining Sunbeam forages mainly on nectar, but will also eat arthropods.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
Shining Sunbeam
Parque Nacional Natural de los Nevados, Caldas, Colombia; 3500 meters above sea level.
Aglaeactis cupripennis
(Shining Sunbeam / Colibrí paramuno)
The Shining Sunbeam is a large, dark-brown hummingbird with a lilac-gold iridescent lower back and rump. Like other sunbeams, it has a proportionally short bill for a hummingbird. Found at high altitudes, the Shining Sunbeam inhabits semi-arid montane ridges and cloud forests. Most populations are altitudinal migrants, descending seasonally to lower elevations. The Shining Sunbeam forages mainly on nectar, but will also eat arthropods.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...