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Nesting Lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus)
From the Savegre Hotel in San Gerardo de Dota in Costa Rica. Back then, I did not yet have any tele-zoom lens, so the number of hummingbird pictures I took was disappointingly small (although we saw lots of them!).
However, this bold fellow had chosen to build its nest inside a metallic ornament that decorated one of the wooden cabañas of the hotel. And I patiently edged closer and closer until I was able snap this picture without disturbing the bird in its task of hatching out the next generation.
The lesser violetear is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica to northern South America. This species and the Mexican violetear were formerly considered as conspecific and named the 'green violetear'.
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