
The bronze-tailed plumeleteer is a large hummingbird resident in Central America and South America from eastern Honduras to northwestern Ecuador. The birds inhabit forests and have a preference for edges, gaps and secondary growth. It occurs in the Caribbean lowlands, typically up to an elevation of 700 metres.
The red-footed plumeleteer is the Costa Rican subspecies ''C. u. melanorrhoa'' and has a black, not bronze, tail.
The nest is a deep cup of plant fibres less than 1.5.. more
Similar species: Swifts And Hummingbirds
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Uploaded Jun 26, 2018. Captured Jun 19, 2015 15:07.