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Great Sapphirewing

Pterophanes cyanopterus

(L 6-7" Wt 0.35 oz)

One of the largest hummingbirds
...at 3000-3600 m...in Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Papallacta Pass

13Mar2017

above Termes de Papallacta

19Jan2011

female

Pterophanes is Greek for
shining wing; cyanopterus
means dark blue wing.

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Rosenberg
Macaulay
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