Cinnamon Hummingbird
Cinnamon Hummingbird: Medium size, bicolored hummingbird with bronze green upperparts and cinnamon colored underparts. The tail is square, rufous with gold-green edging. This promiscuous bird attracts a female by flying back and forth like a swing. Both sexes are protective of feeding territories.
● Song:
"chi-chi chi chi", "tsi si si-si-sit"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Cinnamon Hummingbird: Feeds and perches low to high. Visits flowering shrubs, trees, and epiphytes. Aggressive near feeding areas, may defend feeding territory.
● Breeding & nesting:
Cinnamon Hummingbird: Two white eggs are laid in a tidy cup of fern tree scales and seed down, covered with lichen and bound with spider webbing. Nest is built by female 3 to 16 feet above ground in a tree or shrub. Female incubates eggs for 13-15 days, altricial young fly between 14 and 23 days.
● Similar species:
Cinnamon Hummingbird: Buff-bellied Hummingbird has a rufous tail, green chin, throat, and breast, and buff belly and undertail coverts. Berylline Hummingbird has deep green upperparts and underparts, and rufous-chestnut wings, tail, and rump.