Ecuador

Masked Flowerpiercer

Diglossa cyanea

(L 5.75")

In Venezuela, Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
...has a bright red iris.

Yanacocha Reserve

13Jan2011

Diglossa in Greek means double-
tongued; cyanea means dark blue.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Blue birds fly.

(Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg)

© Mitch
Lysinger

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