Hummers, Mindo, Ecuador (1 Viewer)

[opisska]

Even after more then two months, there are still birds from Ecuador that we haven't IDed. Especially those really, really green hummers from Yellow House. Some of them look similar to each other, but not quite ...

 

[njlarsen]

No 2 and probably 3 and 4 reminds me of green-crowned brilliant. Notice the shape of the area just behind the bill.

Niels

 

[THE_FERN]

I think probably 1,2,4 green-crowned brilliant. For 1, throat gorget might be pink - in which case empress brilliant except that there's no sign of contrasting goldish feathering lower on breast/belly so I think probably an artefact. 3,5 I think crowned Woodnymph: greyish unds, shortish curved bill (but 3 not obvious: see unds esp here)

 

[opisska]

We have other individuals from both species (brilliant and woodnymph) from the same feeder that we deemed reasonable to ID, so it won't be surprising if those were indeed other birds of the same species.

 

[njlarsen]

For 1 I don’t get the impression of elongated face around the bill that signals brilliant but I might be wrong. I now agree that 3 is not one.

Niels

 

[THE_FERN]

For 1 I don’t get the impression of elongated face around the bill that signals brilliant but I might be wrong. I now agree that 3 is not one.

Niels

Surely it's a matter of the angle? You can see the throat patch..? (Without looking at photos, illustration of empress suggests bill is longer and straighter)

 

[pbjosh]

I agree 2 and 4 are certainly Green-crowned Brilliants, and I think 1 must be as well. I can't see any reason to call it anything else, and GC Brilliant is one of the most common hummers in Mindo and by far the common Brilliant there.

3 and 5 are female White-naped Jacobins. The structure is stockier with a heavier bill than a Woodnymph, the throat and belly are more scaled, and the undertail coverts are heavily scaled, clear in 5 and barely visible in 3.