Birds of Ecuador

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Schistes (2 species, 2 worldwide)


White-throated Daggerbill
White-throated Daggerbill (Schistes albogularis) Male
Rio Blanco Ecological Reserve, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia
  Note gorget on male.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

White-throated Daggerbill
White-throated Daggerbill (Schistes albogularis) Female
ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A smallish hummingbird Usually seen drinking nectar from the base of hanging flowers, including the well-known 'borrachero' flower. Also called White-throated Wedgebill.

Geoffroy's Daggerbill
Geoffroy's Daggerbill (Schistes geoffroyi geoffroyi)
Peru  
   
Photograph by Cláudio D. Timm     Copyright and usage info

Part of a two-way split of the Wedge-billed Hummingbird, and also called the Eastern Wedge-billed Hummingbird or Daggerbill.


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