Kids Lesser Violetear T-shirt Back to School to Costa Rica

to Costa Rica

from Canada to the Gulf coast

their population is thought to have declined by around 50% over the last 50 years

It is found from southern Mexico south

Very closely related to the Black-chinned hummingbird

Kids Lesser Violetear T-shirt Back to School to Costa RicaThe 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