Birds of Costa Rica - Microchera


Snowcap (Microchera albocoronata parvirostris) Male Braulio Carrillo, Tapir, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


Snowcap (Microchera albocoronata parvirostris) Immature Male Braulio Carrillo, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.

A small hummingbird with unique colors.


White-tailed Emerald (Microchera chionura) Male Panama
Photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn © All Rights Reserved.

Note green wing patch as compared to the bronze patch on the slightly larger Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Hawrylyshyn).


Coppery-headed Emerald (Microchera cupreiceps) Male ENDEMIC Auberge de Socorro, Costa Rica
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Coppery-headed Emerald (Microchera cupreiceps) Female ENDEMIC Costa Rica
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Coppery-headed Emerald (Microchera cupreiceps) Immature Male ENDEMIC Monteverde, Costa Rica
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Note decurved bill.

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