Adult male © Carlos Bolaños eBird S120335760 Macaulay Library ML 605194081
Adult female © Andres Vasquez Noboa
Adult female © Don Danko
Adult male © Fernando Burgalin Sequeria
Immature © LARRY MOSS
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Adult male © Isaias Morataya
Female © Stephen Menzie
Immature © Alfredo Koch

Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti

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Identification

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Flashy, rather large hummingbird of humid tropical lowlands. Favors forest edges, adjacent clearings with scattered trees and flowering bushes, and gardens. Feeds at all levels, but often in the canopy, hovering with its tail cocked and frequently flashed open to show extensive white. Note the gleaming snow-white underparts, brilliant emerald-green upperparts, and flashy white outer tail feathers. Bill is medium-length, black, and sharply pointed (often pierces flower bases to get nectar). Sexes similar overall, but female lacks purple crown of male, which can be hard to see, and has a longer tail.

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