Blue-vented Hummingbird
Status: Common Resident
Size: Small-sized Hummingbird (8 - 10 cm)
IUCN Red-List Status: Least Concern
Stratum: Understory
Life Zone(s): North Pacific Lowlands
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Saucerottia hoffmanni
**Costa Rica Near-Endemic**
@ El Toucanet Lodge, San José Province, Costa Rica
The Blue-vented Hummingbird (Saucerottia hoffmanni) is a fairly small dark hummingbird, green overall with dark blue tail. Straight, medium-length bill. Copper rump and absence of rufous wing flash help distinguish from other similar species. Sexes similar. Usually seen feeding singly in flowers along forest edge, shrubby second growth, and gardens.
Blue-vented Hummingbird Distribution Map (from eBird)
PHOTO GALLERY
@ El Toucanet Lodge, San José Province, Costa Rica
@ El Toucanet Lodge, San José Province, Costa Rica
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*Some of this website's species' photos (all taken by me) may have been taken in other nearby countries.