- Eutoxeres aquila
Identification
12-14cm. Strongly decurved bill, underparts black and white streaked, upperparts dark green, rectrices green and brown with contrasting white tips. Sexes are alike. Immatures resemble adults. Subspecies are alike.
Distribution
Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and far northern Peru. There is also a single recent record from Mérida in Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Undergrowth of humid lowland or montane forest.
Behaviour
The diet includes nectar.
It builds a cup nest loosely woven from rootlets and plant fibres attached by cobweb underneath a long, hanging leaf. 2 eggs are laid and incubated by the female for 16–17 days. Chick is black with gray dorsal down; fledging 22–25 days.
