Birds of Peru - Discosura


Green Thorntail (Discosura conversii) Male Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Los Bancos, Ecuador
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Green Thorntail (Discosura conversii) Female Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Los Bancos, Ecuador
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

A tiny hummingbird, especially the female with no crest or long tail.


Black-bellied Thorntail (Discosura langsdorffi melanosternon) Male Reserva Natural La Isla Escondida, Orito, Putumayo, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Black-bellied Thorntail (Discosura langsdorffi melanosternon) Female Aconabikh Reserve, Peru Female is very similar to Wire-crested Thorntail except for green and white speckled chest (Hawrylyshyn)
Photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn © All Rights Reserved.


Wire-crested Thorntail (Discosura popelairii) Male Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Wire-crested Thorntail (Discosura popelairii) Female Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Additional photo.

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