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Tumbes Hummingbird
Leucippus baeri
Chaparrí Reserve, Lambayeque department, Peru.
A nice action shot of a bird taking a bath in a stream near the lodge.
Photographed with a Canon 7D camera and a Canon 100-400mm f4.5-f5.6 IS lens on 13 October 2011.
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Latest updates and blog:
15 January: Just a small update today, with the Rusty Flowerpiercer below, four photos of Brown Skua, and single photos of Santa Marta races of Cinnamon Flycatcher and Gray-breasted Wood-Wren.
11 January: Today's update includes a bunch of hummers from northern Colombia, including this White-vented Plumeleteer. I know of three places in the Santa Marta mountains now that have hummer feeders, and combined they bring in over fifteen species. It makes seeing and especially photographing them now compared to a few years ago! Other uploads today include Brown Violetear, Steely-vented Hummingbird, Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Lazuline Sabrewing, Red-billed Emerald, Shining-green Hummingbird, and Santa Marta Woodstar.
7 January: I've been adding various shots from Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, as well as a nice shot of a Common Miner from Argentina. That's probably the best of the bunch, though other decent ones include Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrant, Short-tailed Field-Tyrant, Black-fronted Wood-Quail, Laughing Falcon, Russet-throated Puffbird, and White-bellied Antbird.
3 January: Here's an update for all you owl-lovers out there. Hey, who doesn't love owls? All these photos come from my North Peru trip in October, probably my best trip ever for owls. My favorite shot is probably this Yungas Pygmy-Owl featured here, from near the northern limit of its range at Abra Barra Negro. I've also got a poor photo of the near-mythical Long-whiskered Owlet. Other new additions are Cinnamon Screech-Owl, Peruvian Screech-Owl, Koepcke's Screech-Owl, and Burrowing Owl.
2 January: A huge update today, this time focusing on hummers! Apart from this Emerald-bellied Puffleg, there are nice shots of Chestnut-breasted Coronet, Green Violetear, Shining Sunbeam, Speckled Hummingbird, Long-tailed Sylph, and Rufous-vented Whitetip among others. I've also added other odds and ends from northern Peru like Gray-and-white Tyrannulet, also featured below, and Long-tailed Mockingbird, White-tailed Jay, and Johnson's Tody-Flycatcher. As usual, click here for the complete list of new additons.
1 January: Happy new year! I've added a dozen or so new shots today, including the Tumbes Hummingbird that is now the new "featured photo" as well as the Black-hooded Antwren below. Click here for the others.
31 December: As another year comes to a close, I finally have some time to add some more photos. I spent Xmas with my brother Steve, sister-in-law Karin, and incredibly cute nephew Caleb, and really didn't do much of anything other than relax, have some fun, and wind down after a very busy six months. My Xmas present to myself was a brand-new blazingly fast PC that will help me work through the daunting backlog of photos. I'm starting with a set mostly from Southeast Brazil - my favorites are the pair of Spot-billed Toucanets and the male Festive Coquette below. See the full list of new additions here.
18 December: I spent the past month in Argentina, first doing a short "recce" to Chubut province in northern Patagonia, then leading a three week photo tour. Luck was not with me for the recce as the ash from the erupting Puyehue volcano in Chile cancelled all flights to and from Trelew exactly during the time I was there. I had no choice but to take the bus - an 18 hour trip each way! Luckily buses in Argentina are superb, almost like traveling in first class on an airliner, and I still had just enough time to check out the key sites, so it all worked out in the end. Bird photography in Patagonia can be challenging due to the low diversity and the frequent strong winds, but there were some good opportunities, and the mammal watching was superb. The tour was a private tour for Jean and Denise Leveille from Montreal. Jean writes a weekly newspaper article on birds in the Journal de Móntreal, and his primary goal was to get material that he could use in his article. We did a "typical" circuit in the NW part of the country in the provinces of Salta, Jujuy, and Tucumán, then headed to Trelew to spend the last few days in Patagonia. Fortunately by then the ash was no longer affecting the flights. Below are a couple of shots from the trip (the first of many), Elegant Crested-Tinamou and Red-backed Sierra-Finch. I also uploaded photos of Fulvous-headed Brush-Finch, Stripe-crowned Spinetail, and a pair of Orange-chinned Parakeet from my previous trip in Colombia. A lot more to come as I work through the backlog.
18 November: A small update of finches before I head off into the field again. I'm off to Argentina to guide a photo tour to the northwestern Andes and the Valdés Peninsula, should be a great opportunity to get some nice new photos. The best photo of todays set is the Plain-tailed Warbling-Finch below; others include Collared Warbling-Finch, Gray-winged Inca-Finch, Buff-bridled Inca-Finch, Peruvian Sierra-Finch, Tocuyo Sparrow, Double-collared Seedeater, and Parrot-billed Seedeater.
15 November: Back in Quito for a few days after a short Northern Colombia trip. I'm not sure how much time I will have to upload photos, but I've at least added a couple of the better ones here, Paramo Seedeater and Streak-capped Spinetail.
2 November: Quite a big update today, focusing on the Furnariids (Ovenbirds). I've added eleven new species including a rare photo of a Russet-mantled Softtail; I also completed the thornbird genus Phacellodomus - check the full list here. In addition, I reprocessed quite a few of the photos in the furnariid galleries one and two, and added a few more tanager shots.
31 October: I've updated one of the tanager galleries with some new shots and a few replacements of older shots. The full list of new photos is here.
30 October: I add another shot today from northern Peru, of the Undulated Antpitta that is coming in to a worm feeder at the lodge at Abra Patricia. The bird comes in only right at dawn when there is almost no light. I photographed this on a tripod and only had a speed of 1/8 of a second at 3200 ISO.
28 October: It's my busiest time of the year, with almost non-stop trips in South America. I'm just finished a great trip to northern Peru, and before that another tour in Southeast Brazil. I've got a huge backlog of photos that I will slowly start working on. I really enjoyed northern Peru. I hadn't been there for several years, and many sites I had not visited since 2005. It's come a long way since then with a much improved infrastructure, though sadly there has also been a significant loss in accessible birding habitat in a few areas. We still managed to get almost all of our targets, though it is getting harder. Hopefully there will be more conservation projects like the very successful ones at Chaparrí and Abra Patricia. I've changed the headline photo to a Royal Sunangel, one of the most handsome hummers in the area, and also added the Sulphur-throated Finch shown below. It is an odd, monotypic finch found in very arid areas of NW Peru and SW Ecuador.
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Recently added photos:
15 January: Rusty Flowerpiercer from Colombia.
15 January: Brown Skua from Argentina (4 photos).
15 January: Cinnamon Flycatcher from Colombia.
15 January: Gray-breasted Wood-Wren from Colombia.
11 January: Brown Violetear from Colombia.
11 January: Steely-vented Hummingbird from Colombia.
11 January: White-vented Plumeleteer from Colombia.
11 January: Rufous-tailed Hummingbird from Colombia.
11 January: Lazuline Sabrewing from Colombia,
11 January: Red-billed Emerald from Colombia.
11 January: Shining-green Hummingbird from Colombia.
11 January: Santa Marta Woodstar from Colombia.
7 January: Common Miner from Argentina.
7 January: Blue-backed Conebill from Peru.
7 January: Mountain Caracara from Peru.
7 January: Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrant from Peru.
7 January: Rufous-webbed Bush-Tyrant from Peru.
7 January: Short-tailed Field-Tyrant from Peru.
7 January: White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant from Peru.
7 January: White-collared Jay from Peru.
7 January: Black-fronted Wood-Quail from Colombia.
7 January: Green-rumped Parrotlet from Colombia.
7 January: Laughing Falcon from Colombia.
7 January: Rusty-breasted Nunlet from Brazil.
7 January: Russet-throated Puffbird from Colombia.
7 January: White-bellied Antbird from Colombia.
3 January: Yungas Pygmy-Owl from Peru.
3 January: Long-whiskered Owlet from Peru.
3 January: Cinnamon Screech-Owl from Peru.
3 January: Peruvian Screech-Owl from Peru.
3 January: Koepcke's Screech-Owl from Peru.
3 January: Burrowing Owl from Peru.
2 January: Emerald-bellied Puffleg from Peru.
2 January: Chestnut-breasted Coronet from Peru.
2 January: Green Violetear from Peru.
2 January: Shining Sunbeam from Peru.
2 January: Speckled Hummingbird from Peru.
2 January: Long-tailed Sylph from Peru.
2 January: Rufous-vented Whitetip from Peru.
2 January: Purple-collared Woodstar from Peru.
2 January: Coppery Metaltail from Peru.
2 January: Black Metaltail from Peru.
2 January: White-bellied Woodstar from Peru.
2 January: White-bellied Hummingbird from Peru.
2 January: Gray-and-white Tyrannulet from Peru.
2 January: Johnson's Tody-Flycatcher from Peru.
2 January: Long-tailed Mockingbird from Peru.
2 January: White-tailed Jay from Peru.
2 January: Golden-bellied Grosbeak from Peru.
2 January: West Peruvian Dove from Peru.
2 January: Gray-hooded Gull from Peru.
2 January: Pale-legged Hornero from Peru.
2 January: Olive-backed Woodcreeper from Peru.
1 January: Tumbes Hummingbird from Peru.
1 January: Amazilia Hummingbird from Peru.
1 January: Versicolored Emerald from Brazil.
1 January: Black-hooded Antwren from Brazil.
1 January: Unicolored Antwren from Brazil.
1 January: Pavonine Cuckoo from Brazil.
1 January: Yellow-billed Cuckoo from Colombia.
1 January: White-necked Thrush from Brazil.
1 January: Peach-fronted Parakeet from Brazil.
1 January: Blackish Rail from Brazil.
1 January: Pacific Elaenia from Peru.
1 January: Croaking Ground-Dove from Peru.
31 December: Spot-billed Toucanet from Brazil.
31 December: Golden-winged Cacique from Brazil.
31 December: Festive Coquette from Brazil.
31 December: Shear-tailed Gray Tyrant from Brazil.
31 December: São Paulo Tyrannulet from Brazil.
31 December: Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin from Brazil.
31 December: Black-fronted Piping-Guan from Brazil.
31 December: White-winged Guan from Peru.
31 December: Bicolored Hawk from Colombia.
31 December: Lesser Nighthawk from Colombia.
18 December: Elegant Crested-Tinamou from Argentina.
18 December: Red-backed Sierra-Finch from Argentina.
18 December: Fulvous-headed Brush-Finch from Argentina.
18 December: Stripe-crowned Spinetail from Argentina.
18 December: Orange-chinned Parakeet from Colombia.
18 November: Plain-tailed Warbling-Finch from Peru.
18 November: Collared Warbling-Finch from Peru.
18 November: Gray-winged Inca-Finch from Peru.
18 November: Buff-bridled Inca-Finch from Peru.
18 November: Peruvian Sierra-Finch from Peru.
18 November: Tocuyo Sparrow from Colombia.
18 November: Double-collared Seedeater from Brazil.
18 November: Parrot-billed Seedeater from Peru.
15 November: Paramo Seedeater from Colombia.
15 November: Streak-capped Spinetail from Colombia.
2 November: Tawny-throated Leaftosser from Brazil.
2 November: Slender-billed Miner from Peru.
2 November: Cream-winged Cinclodes from Peru.
2 November: Wing-banded Hornero from Brazil.
2 November: Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail from Peru.
2 November: Gray-bellied Spinetail from Brazil.
2 November: Necklaced (Chinchipe) Spinetail from Peru.
2 November: Great Spinetail from Peru.
2 November: Baron's Spinetail from Peru
2 November: Russet-mantled Softtail from Peru.
2 November: Streak-throated Canastero from Peru.
2 November: Cactus Canastero from Peru.
2 November: Chestnut-backed Thornbird from Peru.
2 November: Orange-eyed Thornbird from Brazil.
2 November: Orange-breasted Thornbird from Brazil.
2 November: Pearled Treerunner from Peru.
2 November: Golden-chevroned Tanager from Brazil.
2 November: Silvery Tanager from Peru.
2 November: Beryl-spangled Tanager from Peru.
2 November: Chestnut-backed Tanager from Brazil.
2 November: Blue Dacnis from Brazil.
2 November: Green Honeycreeper from Brazil.
31 October: White-banded Tanager from Brazil.
31 October: Olive-green Tanager from Brazil.
31 October: Buff-bellied Tanager from Peru.
31 October: Black-goggled Tanager from Brazil.
31 October: Ruby-crowned Tanager from Brazil.
31 October: Brazilian Tanager from Brazil.
31 October: Black-bellied Tanager from Peru.
30 October: Undulated Antpitta from Peru.
28 October: Royal Sunangel from Peru.
28 October: Sulphur-throated Finch from Peru.
