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Green Thorntail
Discosura conversii*
(L 3.75" Wt 0.10 oz)
Uncommon resident from
Costa Rica to west Ecuador
...long forked tail on male.
Restaurante Mirador
Los Bancos
15Jan2011
*aka Popelairia conversii
females
It would take over 2000 hummingbird
eggs, the world‘s smallest, to equal
the weight of one ostrich egg.
(Patrick Merrell)
Discosura in Greek
means separate tail.
Rancho Naturalista
07Feb2010
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