Welcome to this series of single-image posts.
You are looking at Ensifera ensifera, the sword-billed hummingbird.
It is the only bird on earth with a bill that is longer than its body-proper.
Some individuals’ beaks are longer than their entire bodies, tail-feathers included.
Bird-wise, Colombia is generally recognised as the world’s most species-rich nation; the “recognised” number exceeds 1,900 – circa 20% of the global total of bird species!
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