BIRDS NEWS

The coquette is showing off!!!

Since a week or so, we’ve being having the visit of the spectacular white-crested Coquette, (Lophornis adorabilis), that for sure, as the Latin name states, is adorable. This very small hummingbird of almost 7cm, wanders widely when the small flowers of Inga, Vochysia, Lonchocarpus are abundant, then disappearing for long intervals; in forest keeps high in canopy, coming down to shrub level at edges, and in second growth; hovers slowly through foliage gleaning small spiders and insects. It’s uncommon in the southern Pacific and rare in the Central Valley, also found east of Turrialba; up to 1400m. By the way, this beautiful coquette is endemic to Costa Rica and western Panama.