Wildlife: A White-bellied hummingbird is seen in Peten, Guatemala

A White-bellied hummingbird is seen feeding from an artificial feeder in Las Guacamayas Biological Station in Laguna del Tigre National Natural Reserve in Peten, Guatemala. The white-bellied emerald hummingbird Amazilia candida is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. Small and rather plain hummingbird of tropical lowland forest and edge. Feeds low to high, often at edges and out in clearings. Both sexes look “female-plumaged”, with green upper-parts, white underparts; reddish color on base of bill can be difficult to see. Tail drab greenish with faint dusky band near tip. Lacks bold white tail corners of other small hummingbirds, such as female Ruby-throated.

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