Three of the dozens of hummingbird species we were treated to in Ecuador! Upper left and right: Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata) and Long-tailed Sylph (Aglaiocercus kingii), both of which frequent the feeders of Guango Lodge in upper montane rainforest. Lower left: the Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas), a whopper of a hummer at about 9″ (22 cm) in length – the world’s largest. We spotted this one at high elevation in Antisana Ecological Reserve.
James T. Costa 