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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njlarsen" data-source="post: 3337439" data-attributes="member: 7427">Dear all, thanks for all the discussion. I got a little more time today than I expected. Attached is the slightly different angle I wanted to show. Both this and the original images is in early sun that therefore is coming probably a bit behind me as if I had been using flash. Here is a photo I consider a fairly typical view of Andean Emerald: <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/546361/limit/recent" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/546361/limit/recent</a> -- that photo is from the following day, still in the Mindo area, but out of the sun, and that might make some of the difference. I also today saw the flight image in the Opus page and how bronzy that looked around the tail area: <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Andean_Emerald" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Andean_Emerald</a> All in all, I am coming around to the idea that Andean Emerald probably is correct for this image. Any further comments?Niels</blockquote>