Some trivia, hermits are called 'shadow hummingbirds' in German. This species however is a bit less timid than others.
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
Aperture Value
f/8
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Manual
Flash
Compulsory Flash
Focal Length
420 mm
ISO
400
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/200 sec
Date/Time
Sun 04 Oct 2009 09:20:10 AM EDT
English Rufous-breasted Hermit
Scientific (Glaucis hirsutus hirsutus)
Order APODIFORMES
Family (Latin) Trochilidae
Family (English) Hummingbirds
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions MA, SA
Breeding Range Subregions Panama to Brazil and ne Bolivia. Also Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Bolivia,Brazil,Colombia,Ecuador - mainland,French Guiana,Grenada,Guyana,Netherlands Antilles,Panama,Peru, Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
insularum Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago
hirsutus Panama and w Colombia through Venezuela and the Guianas to Brazil and n Bolivia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
German Rotschwanz-Schattenkolibri
French Ermite hirsute
Chinese 棕胸铜色蜂鸟
Japanese ムネアカハチドリ
Russian Краснохвостый колибри-отшельник
Spanish Ermitaño hirsuto
Portuguese eremita-de-peito-ruivo
Bird Data App text Locally common and more likely to leave the forest than other hermits.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)