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Phaethornis striigularis

Photo of male by Stanley Jones
Coclé Province, Panama, February, 2011

Photographed in Costa Rica by Jim Crosswell

[edit] Identification

9-10. Iridescent green wing-coverts, mantle, nape and crown, pale rufous rump, buff belly and flanks, grey brown central underparts and throat with small dark streaks, black mask bordered above by a whitish-buff supercilium and below by whitish-buff malar, black flight-feathers and tail tipped white to ochraceous, long, decurved bill. The basal half of the lower mandible is yellow, black bill. The sexes are virtually identical. Juveniles have pale rufous back.

[edit] Distribution

Southern Mexico, Belize, north-eastern Guatemala, northern and eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, western, central and northern Colombia, western Ecuador and north-eastern Venezuela.

[edit] Taxonomy

Previously considered a race of the Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus).

[edit] Habitat

Forest, woodland, clearings, thickets and gardens.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes nectar and insects.

It builds a small cup nest with a dangling "tail" of plant-material, held together by spiderwebs. 2 eggs are laid and incubated by the female for 15-16 days.

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