La historia
On June 16, 2017, I photographed this Steely-vented Hummingbird (Saucerottia saucerottei) at the Jardín Botánico del Quindío in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia. In most of its range it lives between sea level and about 1,500 meters and forages for nectar at low bushes and trees. It was formerly placed in the genus Amazilia. It is a hummingbird of Colombia and Venezuela, dark glittering golden-green below with greenish to steel-blue undertail coverts. The garden’s main site is a research and environmental-education center in a remnant of native forest in Calarcá.
I used a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM for this one, at 1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600. IUCN lists the Steely-vented Hummingbird as Least Concern with a decreasing population, and the garden, a nonprofit foundation, also looks after eight hectares of natural forest in the Barbas-Bremen reserve near Filandia and Circasia.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Steely-vented Hummingbird (Saucerottia saucerottei) pertenece a la familia Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2021), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
