Birds of Nicaragua BETA

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Chalybura (1 species, 2 worldwide)


Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer (Chalybura urochrysia melanorrhoa)
La Union de Guapiles, Costa Rica
  The Caribbean slope race in Costa Rica is called by HBW the Black-vented Plumeleteer, and has very red legs.
   
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez   © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer (Chalybura urochrysia) Female
Mutatá, Colombia
  Note white-tipped tail on female.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Less common than the [White-vented Plumeleteer], and only found inside humid forests. Note red feet on both sexes.


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