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Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 04:53 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I thought this was one of my regular species that I see quite often here, but the white postocular stripe is different.

I hope someone know what species it is!
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Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 10:12 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I do not know....but I do know he/she's lovely to see! If no one else knows, I can get my friend to take a peek.

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Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 10:15 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

OH NO! Not another one of your little green fliers LOL... My guide is very weak in this department... I am guessing Female Garden Emerald

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Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 03:14 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I think it is female White throated mountain gem.
I have just ordered a new humming bird book, so I should soon be an expert:)

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Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 09:26 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Looks very much like a white eared hummer.

I'm guessing you live in AZ.

Ron

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Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 02:32 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

No, I am in Costa Rica.I don't know whether the white eared hummer comes this far.But, I don't think this hummer is a White eared hummer.

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Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 06:43 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

He's very pretty. What is the purple plant he's enjoying?

Jackiek - Ohio, Zone "5 borderline 6"
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Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 11:28 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Can't help you on that one. But I did some searches on Google under Birds of Costa Rica and am amazed at the richness of your Birds world, the Hummers in particular. I saved the web sites to my favorites/bookmarked them.
Your Hummer I could not find, unfortunately.
Beautiful bird and wonderful pictures.

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Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 11:34 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

female ruby-throat
white spot behind eye
white tips on tail feathers

Lots of examples:http://www.pbase.com/mike_lentz/hummingbirds


Immature males look like females until throat steaks with little red feathers coming in.

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Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 12:50 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

a beauty no matter the species!

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Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 02:38 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Mother_nature,the Ruby throats have all left Costa Rica to return north.
Jackiek, the plant is Stachytarpheta or Porters weed. The favourite of all 7 species of hummers that visit my garden.

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Posted on Friday, April 04, 2008 - 03:38 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Since ruby throats returned yesterday, I was surfing through hummingbirds and found some lovely photos. Maybe this is your bird.

http://www.glennbartley.com/naturephotography/Costa%20Rica/Birds/gardenemer ald.htm

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Posted on Friday, April 04, 2008 - 05:25 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Mother_nature, yes, this is 'mine' even feeding at 'my' flower...but it isn't a Fork tailed garden emerald. I think it has been misnamed. Here is a some photos of the Fork tailed garden emerald There is another photo by Michael Fogden that has been made into a poster. Both he and his wife are authors of the hummingbird book I have recently purchased but it is still at a friends.

http://flickr.com/photos/langooney/248420806/

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Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 04:16 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I have just received my 'Hummingbirds of Costa Rica' by Michael & Patricia Fogden.
What a marvelous gift for Hummingbird lover or for yourself!
By the way, my 'unknown hummer' never made it into the book.

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Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 09:13 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

It seems be a female 'Salvin's emerald' /'Chlorostilbon salvini osberti' There is no photos of them in any of my three Bird books.

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Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 10:09 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I hope it's okay if I join the discussion. Here's a link I found.

http://www.glennbartley.com/naturephotography/Costa%20Rica/Birds/purplethro atedmountaingem.htm

Candyinpok - New York, Zone "5b"
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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 06:24 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thanks for the update Patricia! Very interesting!

Pixc - Ontario, Zone "Z5b"
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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 06:40 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

A real treat to see that little hummer Costaricafinca!

Have a bit of a wait until ours arrive here...we get the Ruby-throat in our area and I am excited to see them again:)

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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 10:25 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Blue sage, I miss them when they have returned to the summer habitat. When we lived in BC we only saw the Rufous but it was exciting when they arrived. Here I get excited every time I see a hummer in the garden. Maybe I'm getting old and get excited easy...
Here is the male. Notice there is no postocular stripe on him.
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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 07:29 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Don't know how I missed this before but these are lovely birds and photos, Patricia. Like little fluttering gems.

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Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 07:31 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Costaricafinca...the coloring on that male is gorgeous...wonderful photo!

p.s. Yes, getting old and easily excited...me too, lol...but these little jewels are worth getting excited about to be sure:)

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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 04:27 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I see now the lack of the white stripe. It's hard to tell some of these apart I think.

Candyinpok - New York, Zone "5b"

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