say hello to the Santa Marta Sabrewing,
photograph by Carole Turek, image courtesy of American Bird
Conservancy, it is one of the rarest hummingbirds in the world, and was
thought lost to science for more than six decades, but Yurgen Vega spotted one
in 2022 and embarked on a joint study with researchers from the American Bird Conservancy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, SELVA, ProCAT Colombia,
and World Parrot Trust to
trace the creature’s habitat and behaviour, named for its home region in the
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the mountains of northern Colombia, the
iridescent sabrewing (Campylopterus
phainopeplus), is exceedingly difficult to spot in part because
of its limited range, to find out more about the study’s findings, have a look on the American
Bird Conservancy website, what a couple of handsome chappies, as an aside when I read Santa Marta Sabrewing, for some inexplicable reason I thought of Buster Scruggs,
who was known as the San Saba Songbird, what a great film it was too.
a trailer for the movie.
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