Adult Lesser Violetear T-shirt Size:M where they rely on scrubby

where they rely on scrubby habitat

A majestic species that is often laden with epiphytes

where it depends on protected forest

Quercus bumelioides may be one of the tallest oaks

A mighty oak species of the middle of the United States and extreme southern Canada

Adult Lesser Violetear T-shirt Size:M where they rely on scrubbyThe Lesser Violetear represents part of a taxonomically difficult hummingbird genus, and it was recently considered conspecific with the Mexican Violetear as the Green Violetear. The nearly identical Mexican Violetear is found further north, including occasionally in Texas, and very rarely further north and east in the US. The Lesser Violetear is found in lush, humid mountain forests from Costa Rica south, to the Andean foothills, and from there, down