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Birders

Donkees

(31,527 posts) Tue Dec 20, 2022, 07:47 PM Dec 2022

Rainbow-Bearded Thornbill Hummingbird

Cinematography: Thomas Marent ; Cut and Editing: David Weiller

This high altitude hummingbird (high Andes: 2800 to 4100m) has a multicolored throat gorget that appears in a glittering iridescence when it catched the light at the right angle. It's beard is a rainbow of colours from celadon-green, turquoise to yellow and red.