About the Image(s)

Taken while in Costa Rica, this is one of the more colorful Males we encountered this day.
In 1983, ornithologists changed Rivoli’s Hummingbird’s name to Magnificent Hummingbird. But in 2017, when they split Magnificent into two species, they brought back the name Rivoli’s for the species that occurs between the U.S. and Nicaragua. The second species they named Talamanca Hummingbird, which has a blue gorget as opposed to Rivoli’s purple gorget.

I thought the history was interesting....and I was wondering why I had difficulty in getting a clear answer about its name.

This was taken with Sony a1 and a 300 mm 2.8 lens at 2.8 (no teleconverter added) as I was experimenting with the straight Prime.

ISO 1000
1/6400 sec
f/2.8

The only think I noticed repeatedly was with the long beaks was using the 2.8 made for the beak to blur a bit at the ned. I think I would try other options next time I use it as a pure Prime, 2.8 is quite restrictive.

Processing was lightening the shadow on the bird and of course Denise, and adjusting the background color to a little more blue.