Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur

Sitio realizado por aficionados a la observación de aves desde 10 de enero 2006

Gilded Hummingbird - Historic records

Order: - Family: Trochilidae

09-01-22 © Sergio Cusano
19-09-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian
18-09-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian

Lapping up chinese wisteria flowers

18-09-21 © J. Simón Tagtachian
06-03-21 © Javier Guillermo González
05-12-20 © Milena LLopis
21-09-20 © Hugo Aguilar
21-12-19 © Luciano Massa

At cock spur tree Erythrina crista-galli

21-12-19 © Luciano Massa

At blue anise sage Salvia guaranitica

21-12-19 © Javier Guillermo González
21-12-19 © Javier Guillermo González
21-12-19 © Javier Guillermo González

At cock spur tree Erythrina crista-galli

21-12-19 © Javier Guillermo González

At blue anise sage Salvia guaranitica

21-12-19 © Javier Guillermo González

At tobacco tree Nicotiana glauca

23-11-19 © Sergio Cusano
06-07-19 © Javier Guillermo González

At climbing aloe Aloe ciliaris

03-07-19 © J. Simón Tagtachian
06-04-19 © Javier Guillermo González
02-02-19 © J. Simón Tagtachian
07-01-19 © J. Simón Tagtachian
Total: 98

27-06-17 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro

Feeding

12-06-16 © Cora Rimoldi

At this time of the year few flowers may be seen in the reserve. One of them is the blue anise sage Salvia guaranitica, a native plant. and the hummingbird does not miss out the chance

Nest/Active nest

18-10-14 © Cora Rimoldi

Fight/Chase

12-02-12 © Roberto Ares

The silk floss tree Ceiba speciosa at the Viamonte Access is loaded with flowers. Joy to our eyes and a nutritious food source for the hummingbirds. There were a gilded sapphire (bronze colour) and a female glittering-bellied emerald (with grayish underparts), some time later a male showed up, too. The gilded sapphire defended from the competitors what it considered its tree. As the sapphire identified an intruder it pounced on it to drive it away. The intruder reacted by escaping and the sapphire escorted it to make sure it left the grounds. But success was temporary since the emerald was back in no time and the sequence was repeated. When the male glittering-bellied gmerald showed up things got worse for the sapphire, now there were two intruders to be expelled from its territory. The movement of hummingbirds is so fast that only these scenes could be rescued. Among them, two chases

Feeding

03-12-11 © Roberto Ares

Lapping up at a cock spur tree

Total: 5