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Bird name: Swallow Tailed Hummingbird
Latin: Eupetomena macroura
Other: Beija-flor-tesoura (Br)
Family: Trochilidae • Hummingbirds
Range: Mainly Brazil, also Bolivia and Paraguay

Record shots of the Swallow-tailed Hummingbird - a fairly common hummingbird in Brazil, identifiable by its very long deeply-forked tail.

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Copyright: AW/monacoeye • Do not copy • Brasilia, Brazil

Bird name: Yellow Chevroned Parrot
Latin: Brotogeris chiriri
Other: Periquito-de-encontro-amarelo (Br) • Chirirí (Es)
Family: Psittacidae • Parrots
Range: Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina

Thanks to Alexia for sending these record shots of Yellow-chevroned Parrots in Brasilia.

Yellow-chevroned Parrots have yellow on bend in wing (chevron visible in flight), a little blue on wing tips, white eye-rings, dark irises, pale bill. Otherwise green, no red in wing.
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