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| − | [[Image:Purple-throated_Woodstar.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by cfagyal <br/>Photo taken at the Tandayapa Lodge, Ecuador in Sept. 2004 ]] | + | ''Philodice mitchellii'' |
| − | + | [[Image:Purple-throated_Woodstar.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by cfagyal <br />Photo taken at the Tandayapa Lodge, [[Ecuador]] in Sept. 2004 ]] | |
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With a very insect-like flight, they hold themselves horizontally, fly much more deliberately and less jerkily, and do not often perch on the feeders. | With a very insect-like flight, they hold themselves horizontally, fly much more deliberately and less jerkily, and do not often perch on the feeders. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| − | {{GSearch|Philodice+mitchellii}} | + | {{GSearch|Calliphlox+mitchellii Use "''Calliphlox mitchellii''" to }} |
| − | [[Category:Birds]] | + | {{GSearch|Philodice+mitchellii Use "''Philodice mitchellii''" to }} |
| + | [[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Calliphlox]] | ||
Revision as of 11:37, 3 August 2008
- Calliphlox mitchellii
Philodice mitchellii
Identification
Males have purple gorgets, white half collar, dark flanks and ling tails. Females have white or orange speckled throats and orange bellies. Both birds have a white or pale orange spot on their flanks. Both sexes are similar to the White-bellied Woodstar.
Distribution
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Subtropical Cloud Forest
Behaviour
With a very insect-like flight, they hold themselves horizontally, fly much more deliberately and less jerkily, and do not often perch on the feeders.
