Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
Status: Common Resident
Size: Large-sized Hummingbird (12 - 14 cm)
IUCN Red-List Status: Least Concern
Stratum: Understory, Mid Canopy
Life Zone(s): North & South Pacific and Caribbean Lowlands, Caribbean Premontane
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Phaeochroa cuvierii
*@ Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Cayo District, Belize
The Scaly-breasted Hummingbird (Phaeochroa cuvierii) is a rather large, dull-plumaged hummingbird of humid tropical lowlands. Favors forest edge and adjacent clearings with trees, flowering bushes, and gardens. Best field marks are its large size and big white tail corners. Sexes look alike: dull greenish overall with medium-length, straightish black bill, dingy buffy belly, and white spot behind eye (like many hummingbirds). Breast is vaguely mottled and not obviously scaly.
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Distribution Map (from eBird)
PHOTO GALLERY
@ Arenal Observatory Lodge, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
@ Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Cayo District, Belize
@ Arenal Observatory Lodge, Alajuela 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.