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ID Hummer ID please (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Coati
- Start date
Jacana
Will Jones
the other candidate would be Stripe-tailed Hummingbird, which has a curved beak. I think the confusion with me lay with trying to confirm my suspisions with google images where there are stripe-tailed hummingbirds mis-labelled as white-tailed emeralds.
not the only one to confuse them obviously!
not the only one to confuse them obviously!
Coati
Yo Vi Quetzales!
Hi Will
Its really interesting to have this feedback; they are so difficult sometimes.
We had quite a few we couldn't ID, even from the big hardback book Hummers of Costa Rica; plumage seems very variable due to metallic sheen/age of bird etc etc
Believe me I'm no expert at all lol but having viewed some images of the stripe tailed, and knowing it is found at Monteverde its the winner at the moment I'll put him up as that in my gallery
thanks
Rich
Its really interesting to have this feedback; they are so difficult sometimes.
We had quite a few we couldn't ID, even from the big hardback book Hummers of Costa Rica; plumage seems very variable due to metallic sheen/age of bird etc etc
Believe me I'm no expert at all lol but having viewed some images of the stripe tailed, and knowing it is found at Monteverde its the winner at the moment
I'll put him up as that in my gallerythanks
Rich
Jacana
Will Jones
Can I ask why you think it's coppery-headed as apposed to Stripe-tailed or White-tailed? I'm not disputing the ID, i'd just like to know the main features
Motmot
Eduardo Amengual
The decurved bill is the most important feature to separate it from White-tailed. Besides, White-tailed is not found in the Monteverde area, it is a southern Pacific species not found in the Tilarán cordillera.
Stripe-tailed is a bulkier/stronger looking bird, with an undertail usually not looking so uniformly white (especially males) and a straighter and all dark bill (without a pale basal half of lower mandible, a typical Coppery-h Emerald feature clearly visible on the subject).
Eduardo
