Tachyphonus rufus
(L 7" Wt 1.2 oz)
Striking male-female differences
...ranges from Costa Rica to
Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago.
Rancho Naturalista
08,09Jan2008
© Bret
Whitney
Macaulay
Library
Tachyphonus in Greek means
fast sound; rufus in Latin
means
brownish-red.
Ian Fleming’s spy agent 007,
was named after the noted
American ornithologist James
Bond (1900-1989).
(Patrick Merrell)