{"id":869,"date":"2008-06-30T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/?p=869"},"modified":"2008-10-29T20:43:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:43:26","slug":"gray-tailed-mountain-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2008\/06\/30\/gray-tailed-mountain-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray-tailed Mountain-gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (<em>Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda<\/em>) is a gray-tailed subspecies of the blue-tailed White-throated Mountain-gem (<em>L. castaneoventris<\/em>), 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savegre.co.cr\/\">Savegre Mountain Hotel<\/a> in the small, mountain community of San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2008\/June\/Gray-tailed-Mountain-gem-1.jpg\" alt=\"Male Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda)\" title=\"Male Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda)\" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This male Gray-tailed Mountain-gem above was guarding the nectar-filled hummingbird flowers outside of our hotel room, and he would fiercely attack any hummingbird or <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2007\/08\/26\/slaty-flowerpiercer\/\">Slaty Flowerpiercer (<em>Diglossa plumbea<\/em>)<\/a> that dared sneak in for an illicit taste of flower nectar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2008\/June\/Gray-tailed-Mountain-gem-2.jpg\" alt=\"Male Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda)\" title=\"Male Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda)\" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Male Gray-tailed Mountain-gems are iridescent bronzy emerald green above and dull gray below with a gray tail, a glittering blue-green crown, and a bright white throat bordered by iridescent blue-green on the chest. Both sexes have a straight, black bill, a white stripe behind the eye, and blackish wings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2008\/June\/Gray-tailed-Mountain-gem-3.jpg\" alt=\"Female Gray-tailed Mountain-gems (Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda) at a hummingbird feeder\" title=\"Female Gray-tailed Mountain-gems (Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda) at a hummingbird feeder\" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Female Gray-tailed Mountain-gems look quite different from the males and are iridescent bronzy emerald green above and bright rufous below with a white-tipped, green tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2008\/06\/30\/gray-tailed-mountain-gem\/\" 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-869","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\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}