White Vented Plumeleteer

Copyright: monacoeye • Canopy Tower, Panama, April 2010 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: White Vented Plumeleteer
Latin: Chalybura buffonii
Other:
Family: Trochilidae • Hummingbirds
Range: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru

The White-vented Plumeleteer is a good-looking large hummingbird. The male is mostly green with a deep blue tail feathers and fluffy white vent feathers.

The female is a bit more difficult to identify - I think the bottom photo is one.

These were seen in the Canopy Tower and Valle de Anton in central Panama.