Male Green-crowned Brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula, Trochilidae. Monteverde, Costa Rica. A large robust hummingbird.
Male Green-crowned Brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula, Trochilidae. Monteverde, Costa Rica. The green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) is a large, robust hummingbird that is a resident breeder in the highlands from Costa Rica to western Ecuador. It is also known as the green-fronted brilliant. The male green-crowned brilliant is 13 cm ( in) long and weighs g ( oz). It is mainly bronze-green with a glittering green crown, forehead, throat and breast. It has a white spot behind the eye, a small violet-blue throat patch, white thighs, and a deeply forked blue-black tail. The female is 12 cm ( in) long and weighs 8 g ( oz). She differs from the male in that she has green-spotted white underparts, a white spot behind the eye and a white stripe below the eye, and a white-cornered shallowly-forked black tail. Young birds resemble the adult of the same sex, but are duller, bronze-tinged below and have buff throats.
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Location: Monteverde, Costa Rica
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License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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