Adult male © L. Ernesto Perez Montes (The Mexican Violetear 🦉) eBird S141359558 Macaulay Library ML 584895041
Female © Anthony Lujan
Female © Anthony Lujan
Adult male © Anthony Lujan
Adult male © Anthony Lujan
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Adult male © Anthony Lujan
Female © Alberto Lobato (El Chivizcoyo)
Female © Anthony Lujan
Adult male © Alberto Lobato (El Chivizcoyo)

Short-crested Coquette Lophornis brachylophus

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Identification

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Tiny, scarce, and very local hummingbird restricted to humid forest and shade-coffee plantations in foothills of Sierra Madre del Sur, Guerrero. Feeds quietly at middle to high levels in flowering trees. Feeding flight is slow and insectlike, flying with tail cocked and showing off big white to buffy-white band across lower back—easily passed off as a big bee or moth. Male has short, spiky orange crest, green throat, and rusty tail sides. Female rather drab, with dull orange forehead, and dingy whitish underparts.

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