Bird genealogy >> Order Apodiformes >> Family Trochilidae
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Location

Heliconias Lodge, Guanacaste
Costa Rica

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 640 mm
Exposure 1/500 s, f/6.3, ISO 200 
Image size 800 x 533 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Schwarzschopfelfe Dutch  Zwartkuifkoketkolibrie
Italian  Coquette crestanera Spanish  Coqueta Crestinegra

Comments

This very uncommon humming-bird is only 2 3/4" in length, looking very much like a bee. It lives mostly in forest canopy, sometimes coming lower to shrub level.




 

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    19/03/2010

Black-crested Coquette male
Lophornis helenae
Coquette d’Hélène

Micheline JACQUEMIN