Adult male © Lorenzo Calcaño eBird S39784962 Macaulay Library ML 177944251
Adult male © Margareta Wieser
Adult female © Yanira Cifuentes Sarmiento
Adult male © Oswaldo Hernández Sánchez
Adult male © Lorenzo Calcaño
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Adult male © Cathy Pasterczyk
Adult female © Margareta Wieser
Adult male © Jay McGowan

violbröstad kolibri Sternoclyta cyanopectus

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Identification

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Attractive large hummingbird, green and long billed with an iridescent violet patch on chest (male), orange wing patch, and white tipped tail. Both sexes have buff scaling on underparts; female has a white moustache and buffy scaled throat and chest. Territorial, usually found alone at mid-level in secondary forest, forest edges, and heliconia and banana patches, often at mid and lower elevations in cloud forest and premontane humid forest. Voice a sharp and repetitive “chit” note. Female similar to female of Violet-fronted Brilliant but shows orange wing patch and buffy underparts.

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