A rufous-tailed hummingbird in flight.

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

San Gerardo de Dota

There's nothing exceptional about seeing a rufous-tailed hummingbird in Costa Rica, since they are one of the most abundant hummers around, but seeing one high up in the mountains was indeed unexpected! This younger bird was over a thousand meters above the expected range for the rufous-tailed hummingbird, but for some reason, he was making himself perfectly at home in the cloud forests of Dota, where the temperature is colder, the air is thinner, and almost none of the other lowland rainforest species live. I used the last bit of afternoon sunlight to highlight him against a shaded background of dark trees, and had just enough shutter speed to freeze him in mid-air.

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