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Eutoxeres aquila

Photo of male by Stanley Jones
Coclé Province, Costa Rica, February, 2011

Photo by rb_stern
Location: Cerro Azul, Panama,

[edit] Identification

12-14cm. Strongly decurved bill, underparts black and white streaked, upperparts dark green, rectrices green and brown with contrasting white tips. Sexes are alike. Immatures resemble adults. Subspecies are alike.

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and far northern Peru. There is also a single recent record from Mérida in Venezuela.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Undergrowth of humid lowland or montane forest.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes nectar.

It builds a cup nest loosely woven from rootlets and plant fibres attached by cobweb underneath a long, hanging leaf. 2 eggs are laid and incubated by the female for 16–17 days. Chick is black with gray dorsal down; fledging 22–25 days.

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