Here is one of the great birds Carlos Chuquiln of IKAM Expeditions found for Patricia and I on a stunning trip across the Andes, from Chiclayo to Moyobamba. This was coming in to hummingbird feeders at a cafe near the museum in Leimebamba.
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This is another species which can be found in good supply at Guango, in particular right near the lodge building. Hummingbirds that we also saw there, but which I didn't get any good pictures of are Sword-billed (occasional visitor), Speckled (there a lot but hard to get pictures away from the...
Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) Species slightly sexually dimorphic. Both sexes have green throats but the chestnut shows through on the female and does not on the male. Guango Lodge, Papallacta, Napo Province, Ecuador. Eastern-slope of the Andes in an elevational zone...
Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) Sexes similar. This bellicose beauty let its aggression get the best of it (note the broken tip of its upper mandible). Casa Simpson, north of Valladolid, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador. Lodge grounds of Casa Simpson, secondary cloud...
Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) Sexes similar. Ecoans Huembo Interpretive Center, Amazonas Department, Peru. Eastern slope of the Ro Utcubamba Valley at ca. 2,050 m (6,726 ft) elevation. Forest edge of a mesic cloud forest.
Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) Sexes similar. Ecoans Huembo Center, Amazonas Department, Peru. Eastern slope of the Ro Utcubamba Valley at ca. 2,050 m (6,726 ft) elevation. Forest edge of a mesic cloud forest.
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