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We had a trial of the flash set-up provided by the tour operator, but didn't persist with it because the wet cool weather wasn't really very conducive to hummingbird activity. You can see in this picture that Collared Incas aren't actually black when the light falls on them in the right way.
Anybody who has ever tried hummingbird photography will know that getting pictures while the birds are moving is challenging, unless one has a special setup (of which more later). This was just a lucky one - the bird stopped in the air before homing in on a feeder.
The summer before last I travelled to Ecuador, on a trip that was in part a photography trip, and in part me tagging on some location onwards independently. Ecuador is a lovely country, but unfortunately in northern Ecuador, where we spent time, there is a lot of degraded habitat, and lodges...
Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata subsp. torquata) Male, species sexually dimorphic. Guango Lodge, Papallacta, Napo Province, Ecuador. Eastern-slope of the Andes in an elevational zone known as humid temperate forest (also called upper montane humid forest) with riparian vegetation adjacent to...
Flying Collared Inca in San Isidro Lodge, Ecuador.
Attracted by the feeders, hummers are easier than in forest. Anyway, it is still a challenge to get them in flight, outside feeders themselves.
More Ecuadorian photos...