Speckled Hummingbirds are kind of unusual in that they are monomorphic, meaning the males and females are indistinguishable. Apparently they are also solitary in nature and the males don't help in raising the young after copulation. That must have been hard for the scientists to decipher considering that they are monomorphic. Maybe they painted the females to determine it. These were photographed at the Reserva Ecologico Rio Blanco in the central cordillera near Manizales.
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