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The sparkling violet-ear is a common and widely-distributed hummingbird in the Neotropics. It is large and aggressive, and I found it a pain when trying to photograph smaller species, such as booted racket-tails and wire-crested thorntails: the violet-ears almost invariably chased off the smaller birds before I could get any images. These were photographed in a small garden on the Manu road on the eastern slope of the Andes in Peru. |
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