Brown Violet-ear Colibri delphinae

Colombian name: Colibrí Pardo
Brown Violetear, Santa Marta Mountains, Magdalena, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image Colombia and Ecuador

The Brown Violet-ear is distributed from Belize and Guatemala in Central America to Colombia and south to northern Bolivia and east through Venezuela to the Guyanas and Roraima in northern Brazil. There is a disjunct population at the Serra Sincorá, Bahia in eastern Brazil. For a distribution map see Birdlife International. It is found in the canopy and edges of humid forest, coffee plantations and shrubby clearings at between 100 and 2,800 metres.

It feeds on the nectar of flowers with fairly shallow corollas and on insects. It is quite aggressive towards smaller hummingbirds.

Brown Violetear, Santa Marta Mountains, Magdalena, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image The song is a series of loud chip notes.

Brown Violetear, Santa Marta Mountains, Magdalena, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image
Brown Violetear, Wildsumaco Lodge, Napo, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image
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