Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
Status: Uncommon Resident
Size: Medium-sized Hummingbird (10 - 12 cm)
IUCN Red-List Status: Least Concern
Stratum: Understory
Life Zone(s): Caribbean Lowlands, Caribbean Premontane
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Chalybura urochrysia
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
The Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer (Chalybura urochrysia) is a medium-sized hummingbird, mostly green. Fairly similar to other hummingbirds including Steely-vented, but note red feet and bronzy rump. Females have whitish underparts and duller pinkish feet. Usually seen singly at flowers in forests or edges.
Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Distribution Map (from eBird)
PHOTO GALLERY
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago 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.