Ecuador

Blue-backed Conebill

Conirostrum sitticolor

(L 5")

Papallacta Pass

13Mar2017

Fairly common and widespread...in
northwest So. America ...at 2500-3500
m...4 subspecies.

Guanco Lodge

19Jan11

Conirostrum means cone bill;
sitticolor is Latin for nuthatch color.

© Paul A.
Schwartz

Macaulay
Library