Birds of Ecuador - Schistes


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
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A smallish hummingbird Usually seen drinking nectar from the base of hanging flowers, including the well-known 'borrachero' flower. Also called White-throated Wedgebill.


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