{"id":1316794,"date":"2017-01-12T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=1316794"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:15:54","slug":"jamaican-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/jamaican-hummingbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Hummingbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamaican Hummingbirds are quite dazzling. A year ago today, while visiting Jamaica, I was blessed to have a visit from a stunning maleRed-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus.)<\/p>\n

Early mornings, I stoodon my balcony waiting for them to come sip from the bright hibiscus blossoms covering a large bush just below my railing. During my walks to the sea, I would encounter the hummers high in trees diving into variousblooms. It was always a special sighting and especially exciting to capture a male.<\/p>\n

The Red-billed Streamertail is also known as the ‘Doctor Bird’ and is endemic to Jamaica. This dazzlinghummer along with the Black-billed Streamertail arethe Island’s National bird.<\/p>\n

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Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One sunny morning, a young or a molting male Red-billed Streamertail hummingbird was perched on a wire fence next to a friend’s garden. As I walked nearer, hedid not seem to mind my taking his portrait.<\/p>\n

I was amazed the sparkling birdallowed me to get so close. More often, I could hardly see them for their speedy natures. His tail is a long way from what will become the longest tail of any hummingbird the world over.<\/p>\n

These remarkable birds are often sighted in the friendly and quiet area of Treasure Beach.<\/p>\n

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Jamaican Hummingbirds are quite dazzling. A year ago today, while visiting Jamaica, I was blessed to have a visit from a stunning maleRed-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus.) Early mornings, I stoodon my balcony waiting for them to come sip from the bright hibiscus blossoms covering a large bush just below my railing. During my walks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":2196804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_9056-web1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1703,7782,8621,8620],"class_list":["post-1316794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-hummingbirds","tag-jamaican-hummingbirds","tag-red-billed-streamertail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}