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rufous-booted racket-tail

  1. Rufous-booted Racket-tail (male)

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail (male)

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail, Subspecies annae), Male.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • challabamba ocreatus addae racket-tail rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  2. Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    • kitefarrago
    • Media item
    • cock-of-the-rock lodge ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  3. Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Yesterday I showed you the male, today it's the female.
    • kitefarrago
    • Media item
    • cock-of-the-rock lodge ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  4. Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    • kitefarrago
    • Media item
    • cock-of-the-rock lodge ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  5. Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Somehow this one reminds me of a gymnast.
    • kitefarrago
    • Media item
    • cock-of-the-rock lodge ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  6. Hiding away

    Hiding away

    For small hummingbirds it can often pay to look whether they're sitting in a bush, and so it was with this one. My third species of Racket-tail, after I saw the other two in Ecuador in 2016. The split hasn't been accepted yet by all taxonomic authorities.
    • kitefarrago
    • Media item
    • ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  7. Rufous-booted Racket-tail (male)

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail (male)

    Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus addae annae) Two subspecies are commonly recognized, one occurs in Peru. This subspecies (annae) occurs from Pasco south while the other Peruvian Racket-tail is mainly northeastern Peru. Rufous-booted Racket-tail is distinct in having its outer rectrices curved...
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • cock-of-the-lodge ocreatus addae annae peru rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  8. Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    I only had two quick looks at this handsome hummer as the Chestnut Breasted was chasing all and sundry away.
    • Neil
    • Media item
    • ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  9. Female Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    Female Rufous-booted Racket-tail

    • juninho
    • Media item
    • ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  10. Hummer in the rain

    Hummer in the rain

    Female Rufous-booted Racket-tail, I reckon.
    • juninho
    • Media item
    • ocreatus addae rufous-booted racket-tail
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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