We saw other hummingbirds, including this Violet-crowned Woodnymph, at the abandoned orchard on the way to Costa Rica's Braulio Carrillo National Park on 16 July 2017. This hummer can be abundant from Guatemala to Colombia and western Venezuela. Males are gorgeous; duller females do all the nesting building and incubation. Both sexes eat nectar and small arthropods. Males feed in the forest canopy, while females stay in the understory (Wikipedia). These photos are both of males. Of course, the sexes must come together sometime, or woodnymphs would be in short supply.
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