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White-chested Emerald, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad, Day 7
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Yesterday, I found this video on YouTube, taken by Rigdon Currie and Trish Johnson, at many of the same places we visited on Trinidad and Tobago. Not my video, but it made me feel like I was right there still. Posting the link here so that I won't forget about it later. Almost at the end of the video, it shows footage of their trip by boat to Little Tobago island, which is where my next photos were taken, with more to follow.
youtu.be/BBifhf99f_M
Again, I have posted a few photos overnight, showing the beginning of our glass-bottomed boat trip from Blue Waters Inn to the small island of Little Tobago. Nothing greatly photogenic, so thought I would jump ahead again and post a Hummingbird shot, taken on Day 7, 19 March 2017, at the Asa Wright Nature Centre, on the island of Trinidad. I very rarely get a chance to see and photograph a Hummingbird where I live, but at Asa Wright, we were in Hummingbird heaven!
"The white-chested emerald (Amazilia brevirostris) is a hummingbird found in eastern Venezuela, the Guianas, Trinidad and far northern Brazil (Roraima).
It is a widespread and common species in Trinidad, less so in Venezuela. It appears to be a local or seasonal migrant, although its movements are not well understood. It is a bird of cultivation, woodland and forest. The female lays her eggs in a small cup nest made of plant fibre and placed on a horizontal tree branch.
The white-chested emerald is approximately 9 cm long and weighs 4.7 g. The black bill is straight and fairly long, at nearly 2 cm. It has bright golden-green upperparts, becoming bronze on the tail, white underparts, and its flanks are green, or white spotted with green. The tail is tipped with purple-black. The sexes are similar.
White-chested emeralds feed on nectar, usually taken from the flowers of large trees, but sometimes from smaller plants such as Heliconia. They also take small insects." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-chested_emerald
youtu.be/BBifhf99f_M
Again, I have posted a few photos overnight, showing the beginning of our glass-bottomed boat trip from Blue Waters Inn to the small island of Little Tobago. Nothing greatly photogenic, so thought I would jump ahead again and post a Hummingbird shot, taken on Day 7, 19 March 2017, at the Asa Wright Nature Centre, on the island of Trinidad. I very rarely get a chance to see and photograph a Hummingbird where I live, but at Asa Wright, we were in Hummingbird heaven!
"The white-chested emerald (Amazilia brevirostris) is a hummingbird found in eastern Venezuela, the Guianas, Trinidad and far northern Brazil (Roraima).
It is a widespread and common species in Trinidad, less so in Venezuela. It appears to be a local or seasonal migrant, although its movements are not well understood. It is a bird of cultivation, woodland and forest. The female lays her eggs in a small cup nest made of plant fibre and placed on a horizontal tree branch.
The white-chested emerald is approximately 9 cm long and weighs 4.7 g. The black bill is straight and fairly long, at nearly 2 cm. It has bright golden-green upperparts, becoming bronze on the tail, white underparts, and its flanks are green, or white spotted with green. The tail is tipped with purple-black. The sexes are similar.
White-chested emeralds feed on nectar, usually taken from the flowers of large trees, but sometimes from smaller plants such as Heliconia. They also take small insects." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-chested_emerald
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Gorgeous video !
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