Snowy-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia edward)
This is an appropriately named tropical hummingbird for what we have seen in the Northeast in the past several weeks: the Snowy-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia edward). This species was captured infrequently during the early years of banding at the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama. The Rufous Hummingbird, another Amazilia species, was the most commonly caught hummingbird. Things have changed in the past few seasons, and the Snowy-bellied is the most commonly captured Amazilia at Cocobolo. Sean suspects the main reason for this shift is the maturation of the forest where banding takes place....
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The first pulse of this year’s MoSI, Monitoreo de Sobrevivencia Invernal (Monitoring of Winter Survivorship), station banding at the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama is complete. Thus far the banding was slower than usual, mostly due to the fact that during all three days of banding we had rain off and on. Nonetheless we still managed to get some interesting species including this Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus). Some of our other banding highlights included three Acadian Flycatchers (Empidonax virescens), a Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota), a Snowy-bellied Hummingbird...
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