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Photographs on this web-site were taken byPaul Smith, Hemme Batjes, Regis Nossent, Frank Fragano,
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SCALE-THROATED HERMIT Phaethornis eurynome ATLANTIC FOREST
Hermits are a large and distinctive group of hummingbirds with long tails and long, downcurved bills. The bill may look a little bit unwieldy, but for the hermit it is like a key to a door, fitting perfectly into long, trumpet-shaped flowers and allowing them access to a nectar store that other species cannot reach.
FIGURE 1 - Adult ventral feeding, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2 - Same individual dorsal (Alberto Esquivel November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 3 - Adult lateral feeding, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 4 - Adult ventral, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Bernard Oosterbaan March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 5 - Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith February - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 6 - Upperwing same individual, lacking elongated central tail feathers (Paul Smith February  - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
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Phaethornis eurynome foraging call recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.