Blasts from the Past: Jamaican Hummingbirds

[Random shots from my travels around the world over the years]

Recently found an old camera card with photos from an April 2004 trip to Jamaica with Rich Hoyer.  Lots of cool birds and great memories, including a sweep of the endemics, and potential splits.  Given that we did that fairly easily, we spent time looking for herps and came up with some cool things.  Just going to post the four hummingbird species for now.  A little color ....

Black-billed Streamertail

Red-billed Streamertail

Jamaican Mango

Vervain Humminbgbird

Blasts from the Past: Wood-Rails

[Random shots from my travels around the world over the years]
Giant Wood-Rail from Argentina and Rufous-necked Wood-Rail from Brazil.   I have a soft-spot for Wood-Rails but still need to get over to see Little Wood-Rail one day .....

Giant Wood-Rail

Rufous-necked Wood-Rail

Blasts from the Past: Peruvian Hummingbirds

[Random shots from my travels around the world over the years]
A couple of neat, and quite similar, hummingbirds from coastal Peru.

Peruvian Sheartail

Oasis Hummingbird