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06/08/2026

The Marvelous Spatuletail is one of Peru’s most celebrated hummingbirds, and it’s not difficult to see why.

Perched in plain view, he goes through a series of display movements, swinging those extraordinary tail streamers with impressive precision. Most hummingbirds seem content with flying. This one appears to have hired a choreographer.

📍Northern Peru

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05/20/2026

A Sparkling Violetear pauses long enough for a quick bath prepared for him by the gracious host of Ensifera Gardens.

What begins as a careful rinse quickly turns into rapid wing flicks and flying droplets, part of the daily maintenance routine that keeps hummingbird feathers in working order.

For something so small, the process is impressively energetic.

Filmed at Ensifera Gardens, Urubamba, Peru.



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05/07/2026

The Dodge 🪶⚔️

A Chestnut-breasted Coronet launches an aerial attack at a perched Violet-fronted Brilliant, but the Brilliant responds with one of the strangest defensive moves I’ve seen: hanging beneath the perch mid-attack to evade the strike.

For a moment, it looked less like a hummingbird and more like a tiny feathered acrobat suspended in the cloud forest air.

Filmed in northern Peru.

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04/27/2026

04/16/2026

Great Horned Owl just after sunset.

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04/10/2026

Meanwhile at the pond C 😊
The prepping dance of these mating avocets is speeded up 8x… it really took the male a long time dancing around until he was ready, but then he was…

04/08/2026

A dust bath at the end of another hard day….
When all the daily activities are done ( including catching lots and lots of dragonflies and juicy worms and chasing off bluebirds when they got too close to the nest) this male Vermilion Flycatcher decided to take a dust bath. Soon after his mate joined in…

04/04/2026

Vermilion Flycatchers food transfer
Or
Come and get your dragonfly!

04/02/2026

Feeding session in the nest in the midst of cherry blossom