Birds of Colombia


White-throated Daggerbill (Schistes albogularis) Male Rio Blanco Ecological Reserve, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia Note gorget on male.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


White-throated Daggerbill (Schistes albogularis) Female ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

A smallish hummingbird Usually seen drinking nectar from the base of hanging flowers, including the well-known 'borrachero' flower. Also called White-throated Wedgebill. In Colombia found the western and central Andean ridges.


Geoffroy's Daggerbill (Schistes geoffroyi geoffroyi) Peru
Photograph by Cláudio D. Timm Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Part of a two-way split of the Wedge-billed Hummingbird, and also called the Eastern Wedge-billed Hummingbird or Daggerbill.

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Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba