Keeping To A theme Of Brightly Coloured Creatures,

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.