Birds of Ecuador

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Ramphomicron (1 species, 2 worldwide)


Purple-backed Thornbill
Purple-backed Thornbill (Ramphomicron microrhynchum microrhynchum) Female
ProAves Dusky Starfrontlet Reserve, Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia
  Note brown ear.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Purple-backed Thornbill
Purple-backed Thornbill (Ramphomicron microrhynchum microrhynchum) Immature Male
PNN Los Nevados, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.



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