Birds of Ecuador - Ocreatus


Peruvian Racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus) Male Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
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Peruvian Racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus) Female Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
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A tiny hummingbird, especially the female. Because of differences in male mating display, the peruana race of the Booted Racket-tail was split in a three way split as the Peruvian Racket-tail, even though it has a large range in Ecuador and reaches to southeast Colombia.


White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) Male ProAves Cerulean Warbler Reserve, San Vicente de Chucuri, Santander, Colombia
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White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii incommodus) Female ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia
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A tiny hummingbird, especially the female. The male has white leg puffs, and those with rufous leg puffs in the eastern part of the Andes to Bolivia are now considered another species.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba