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chestnut-breasted coronet

  1. Chestnut-breasted Coronet, Boissonneaua matthewsii

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet, Boissonneaua matthewsii

    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. https://ikamexpeditions.com/
  2. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

  3. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    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...
  4. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) Amazonas, Abra Patricia Reserve, Owlet Lodge, Per. Tropical humid montane forest (cloud forest) at 2,310 m (7,579 ft) elevation, eastern-slope of the Andes.
  5. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    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...
  6. Chestnut-breasted Hummingbird

    Chestnut-breasted Hummingbird

    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...
  7. The Protester

    The Protester

    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.
  8. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    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.
  9. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet
  10. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet
  11. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet
  12. Chestnut-breasted Coronet ECUAD SER

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet ECUAD SER

    Taken at Guango Lodge in temperate montane forest ~8700 ft asl on the east slope of the Andes in northern Ecuador.
  13. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) San Isidro Lodge, Ecuador. East-slope of the Andes.
  14. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet Boissonneaua matthewsii Pomacochas, Amazonas, Peru 28 Jan 2010
  15. Chestnut-breasted Coronet

    Chestnut-breasted Coronet

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