{"id":575,"date":"2006-06-22T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/06\/22\/rufous-tailed-hummingbird\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T20:41:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:41:33","slug":"rufous-tailed-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/06\/22\/rufous-tailed-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Rufous-tailed Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Amazilia_tzacatl.html\">Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/June\/Rufous-tailed-Hummingbird-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl)\" title=\"Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl)\" width=\"400\" height=\"488\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 bills and green gorgets. The sexes are similar, but the males have more green iridescence and the upper mandible of a female&#8217;s bill is completely black, while that of a male shows some red.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/June\/Rufous-tailed-Hummingbird-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl)\" title=\"Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl)\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds are highly aggressive and territorial, and they will fiercely guard any favored nectar sources like <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/06\/05\/heliconia-rostrata\/\">Heliconia flowers<\/a>. The males are quite vocal and will sing their high, lisping songs throughout the day near their chosen flowers. These feisty hummingbirds also have various <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/sounds\/Amazilia_tzacatl.html\">territorial chasing and feeding calls<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/06\/22\/rufous-tailed-hummingbird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-costa-rican-birds","category-hummingbirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}