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[[Image:Black_Flowerpiercer.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Momo<br/>Location: Quito Botanical Gardens, Ecuador]]
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==Identification==
 
==Identification==
Photographed in Quito Botanical Gardens, Ecuador.
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Easily confused with male White-sided Flowerpiercer or Glossy Flowerpiercer. Former is more slaty and has white flanks; latter has a greyish-blue shoulder-patch. It's more difficult in parts of Colombia where the Black Flowerpiercer has a greyish-blue shoulder-patch (as in Glossy).
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==Distribution==
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==Taxonomy==
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==Habitat==
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==Behaviour==
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Diglossa+humeralis}}  
 
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[[Category:Birds]]
 
[[Category:Birds]]

Revision as of 01:30, 3 August 2007

Diglossa humeralis
Photo by Momo
Location: Quito Botanical Gardens, Ecuador

Identification

Easily confused with male White-sided Flowerpiercer or Glossy Flowerpiercer. Former is more slaty and has white flanks; latter has a greyish-blue shoulder-patch. It's more difficult in parts of Colombia where the Black Flowerpiercer has a greyish-blue shoulder-patch (as in Glossy).

Distribution

Taxonomy

Habitat

Behaviour

External Links

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