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	<title>The Firefly Forest &#187; Hummingbirds</title>
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	<description>Discovering and enjoying nature - The Firefly Forest is a combination nature journal and plant and animal species identification guide</description>
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		<title>Gray-tailed Mountain-gem</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2008/06/30/gray-tailed-mountain-gem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda) is a gray-tailed subspecies of the blue-tailed White-throated Mountain-gem (L. castaneoventris), and it is found in the mountains of southern Costa Rica from the Cordillera de Talamanca southward to the border with Panama. In May of 2007, I observed these Gray-tailed Mountain-gem hummingbirds at the Savegre Mountain Hotel in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnificent Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2008/06/07/magnificent-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnificent Hummingbirds (Eugenes fulgens) range from the mountains of southeastern Arizona to those of western Panama. These large hummingbirds are fairly common residents in the higher elevation mountains of Costa Rica. In May of 2007, we spotted these Magnificent Hummingbirds and many others in the gardens and at the hummingbird feeders of the Savegre Mountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Violet-ear Hummingbirds</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2008/01/20/green-violet-ear-hummingbirds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Violet-ear (Colibri thalassinus) hummingbirds are common to locally abundant residents in the middle and higher elevation mountains of Costa Rica, mainly in the more open areas of the forest where there are plenty of flowering plants. These glittering, jewel-like hummingbirds are found in the mountains of central Mexico down to western Panama in Central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violet Sabrewing</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/06/08/violet-sabrewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Costa Rica, Violet Sabrewing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) hummingbirds are found in the mountains of both the Pacific and Caribbean slope at elevations from 5000 to 8000 feet (1524 to 2438 m) in areas of second growth forest and at forest openings and edges where they can best find their food source, nectar-filled flowers. Violet Sabrewings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa&#039;s Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/03/28/costas-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is definitely the best time to see Costa&#039;s Hummingbirds (Calypte costae) here in southeastern Arizona. Costa&#039;s Hummingbirds are common here from early February through May because this is when our spring wildflowers bloom and the temperatures haven&#039;t yet grown too hot. With the blazing heat of the Sonoran Desert summer, Costa&#039;s Hummingbirds move northward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black-chinned Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/03/07/black-chinned-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black-chinned Hummingbirds (Archilochus alexandri) are quite common here in southeastern Arizona from mid-April until mid-September. These migratory hummingbirds begin arriving here sometime in March and will have all departed for their wintering grounds in Mexico by the end of October.
Despite being common here in the summer, Black-chinned Hummingbirds are often overlooked because the males are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna&#039;s Hummingbirds</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/02/12/annas-hummingbirds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna&#039;s Hummingbirds (Calypte anna) are abundant winter residents and transients (mid-September to mid-March) here in southeastern Arizona, especially in urban and suburban areas with plenty of hummingbird feeders and flowering garden plants. Some of them are year-round residents here, but they are uncommon in the summer, and the best places to see them then are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purple-crowned Fairy</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/07/03/purple-crowned-fairy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purple-crowned Fairies (Heliothryx barroti) are long-tailed hummingbirds known for their unusually graceful, swooping and lilting flight as they dart from flower to flower sipping nectar.

I spotted this female Purple-crowned Fairy in Costa Rica visiting a flowering bean vine. Photographing her was a real challenge as she &#034;danced&#034; around the vine.
Purple-crowned Fairies are iridescent green above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steely-vented Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/06/23/steely-vented-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steely-vented Hummingbirds (Amazilia saucerrottei) are common in open areas of scrubby, second growth forest, coffee plantations, gardens, and at the edges of forests in Costa Rica. These dazzling hummingbirds are at their most beautiful when seen in full sunlight because all the varying shades of their plumage have a shimmering, metallic iridescence that can only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rufous-tailed Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/06/22/rufous-tailed-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most common and widespread hummingbird in the sunny, open areas of Costa Rica, such as in parks, suburban gardens, coffee plantations, and in other non-forested areas, is the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl).

Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds are mostly iridescent green in color but get their common name from their contrasting rufous tails. These medium-sized hummingbirds have red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broad-billed Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/03/02/broad-billed-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broad-billed Hummingbirds (Cynanthus latirostris) are common here in southeastern Arizona during the spring, summer, and early fall (March through September), but they are rare here during the winter, and the best places to see them at this time are in gardens with flowering exotics and hummingbird feeders. I spotted this wintering male Broad-billed Hummingbird in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna&#039;s Hummingbird</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/12/24/annas-hummingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna&#039;s Hummingbirds (Calypte anna) are probably the most common species of hummingbird found at our Tucson hummingbird feeders during the winter. I observed this one at my front courtyard hummingbird feeder a couple of days before Christmas in 2005.

This Anna&#039;s Hummingbird is easily identified as a male because he has an iridescent rosy red gorget [...]]]></description>
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