(October 14)
The Guango Lodge is on the eastern slope of the Andes at about 8,800 feet and features humid temperate forest.



Tourmaline Sunangel.



White-bellied Woodstar.

Fawn-breasted Brilliant.

Buff-winged Starfrontlet (female.)

Sapphire-vented Puffleg.

White-bellied Woodstars and Sapphire-vented Puffleg.

Masked Flowerpiercer.

Flowerpiercers are the cheats of the hummingbird world. Plants that depend on hummingbirds for pollination generally produce long thin flowers that allow only a hummingbird’s specialized beak to reach in for the nectar. Flowerpiercers have short sharp beaks that can cut into the flower at the base, getting the nectar without doing any pollination.

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