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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Jen St. Louis's House!! Elmira Ontario
Nikon D300 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1600s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso320
This was a really difficult photograph to take as this tiny hummingbird was in and out of the twigs of a small bush accessing the flowers. The background was more cluttered than I wanted but I was pleased that I managed to focus on the moving bird rather than one of the many twigs. The Scintillant Hummingbird is one of the smallest birds in the world, only marginally bigger than Bee Hummingbird. The Scintillant is yet another bird that is only found in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, and nowhere else on the planet.
Located on the Oregon Coast in Summer, this male Anna's Hummingbird defended his territory against all comers....even those much larger than himself.
This image doesn't do justice to his brilliant ruby throat. I'm going to have to work on improving my exposure of him.
Amazilia rutila
amazilia canela
San Rafael de Alajuela
Historia Natural
Reproducción
Su nido consiste en una copa hecha de partes suaves de semillas y pedazos de helechos leñosos, cubierto con lÃquenes de color grisáceo y unido con telarañas. Está ubicado entre 1 y 5 m. de altura, en un arbusto o en un árbol en los bordes del bosque o el sotobosque.
Se reproducen de diciembre a mayo o junio.
Alimentación
Visitan flores de árboles (ej. Genipa, Inga, Bombacopsis, Tabebuia), arbustos (Helicteris) y epÃfitas (Combretum).
Comportamiento
Defienden territorios de alimentación alrededor de especies de plantas con flores.
Ambos sexos son agresivos. Los machos cantan solitarios o en grupos pequeños, dispersos en los matorrales densos a lo largo de corrientes de agua y en los bordes de los bosques.
Habitat y Distribución
Habitat
Viven en el dosel y los bordes de los bosques deciduos, bosques secundarios viejos, sabanas arbustivas y bosques de galerÃa.
Distribución
Es una especie residente común en las bajuras y piedemontes del norte de la vertiente del PacÃfico, y se extienden hacia el sur hasta las cercanÃas de Orotina y el rÃo Tárcoles. Asciende hasta los 500 m. de elevación o más en las laderas de las montañas adyacentes, y hasta los 1000 m. al oeste del Valle Central, donde es regular hasta Grecia y esporádico hasta San José. Es accidental en la vertiente del Caribe (Valle del Reventazón, Estación Biológica La Selva).
Distribución fuera de Costa Rica
Se encuentra desde el oeste de México hasta Costa Rica.
Distribución de Area de conservación
GuanacastePacifico CentralTempisqueArenalCordillera Volcanica Central
Descripción
Descripción cientÃfica
Mide 9.5 cm. y pesa 4.8 grs. Es de tamaño mediano; es el único colibrà costarricense con la región inferior canela uniforme y la cola rufa.
El adulto es verde bronceado por encima y las coberteras supracaudales muestran el borde rufo. Las timoneras son rufo castaño con el borde bronce en la punta, y toda la región inferior es rufa canela uniforme (en promedio es más clara en las hembras), con la garganta más clara. El pico del macho es rojo con la punta negra, y el de la hembra tiene la maxila negra en gran parte, con rojo solo en la base y el culmen. Las patas son fuscas.
Los ejemplares juveniles presentan el borde rufo en las plumas de la cara, la coronilla y la rabadilla. A menudo son más pálidos por debajo. La maxila es negra.
Información taxonómica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Aves
Orden: Apodiformes
Familia: Trochilidae
Género: Amazilia
In the 100's of Hummingbirds I have photographed I have never gotten and image with this happening. Too unique to pass up
This is a Female Broad-bill Hummingbird.
Back home again - the Hummingbird visiting in bright sunlight.
I would have liked to have had some at even higher shutter speed but they come and go so quickly.
The purple behind her is our Rhodedendrum bush.
There are many species of Heloconia in Costa Rica and they offer food (nectar and seeds) for many birds and animals. Here a male Green Hermit competes with a female Green-Crowned Brilliant for nectar.
Image taken using a Multi-flash set-up. This technique was new to me but it offers the opportunity to capture some unique images of hummingbirds showing amazing feather details.
Whee! We just returned from an Aperture Academy workshop in Costa Rica. Not surprisingly, one focus was to photograph hummingbirds. You might say I was in hummingbird heaven.
This was taken in Bosque de Paz, or Forest of Peace, which is a large private biological reserve. It is located on on the Continental Divide between Costa Rica's National Poas Volcano Park and National Juan Castro Blanco Water Park. There are many feeders just outside the lodge, so all we had to do was step outside to have hummingbirds whizzing around us.
Of course, the feeders made the photography a bit challenging, trying to get shots without the feeder in the frame. Every once in a while, I got lucky.
This is a male Violet Sabrewing. He was the largest of the many hummingbirds here, but amongst the hardest to capture. I have only cropped this from the left and right sides - vertically, this is full frame!
Taken in Madera Canyon, about 40 miles N of the US/Mexico border in Arizona. These birds are only found in the US in S central Arizona, and to a lesser degree in SW New Mexico, according to sources I have read.
This Green Violetear Hummingbird was perched in the gardens by the Savegre Mountain Hotel.
For range map, summary, and much other information:
avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=526...
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Violetear
For more about the hotel: www.savegre.co.cr/indexeng.html
Savegre Mountain Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011.