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Poss. White-necked Jacobin female

Florisuga mellivora

Description:

The approximately 12 cm long male White-necked Jacobin is unmistakable with its white belly and tail, a white band on the nape and a dark blue hood. Immature males have less white in the tail and a conspicuous rufous patch in the malar region. Females are highly variable, and may resemble adult or immature males, have green upperparts, white belly, white-scaled green or blue throat, and white-scaled dark blue crissum, or be intermediate between the aforementioned plumages, though retain the white-scaled dark blue crissum. Females are potentially confusing, but the pattern on the crissum is distinctive and not shared by superficially similar species.

Habitat:

Tropical wet forest in NW Costa Rica

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4 Comments

DB
DB 11 years ago

¡Muchas Gracias por agregar las fotos! Todos los picaflores son muy lindos...

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 11 years ago

Thanks Maria and Isa!

Isa Goeldner
Isa Goeldner 11 years ago

wonderful!

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

Love the second shot! I was photographing hummers yesterday, too - they are such lovely birds

LarryGraziano
Spotted by
LarryGraziano

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Spotted on Aug 8, 2012
Submitted on Sep 16, 2012

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