Humming birds pollinating orchids
Thanks for Kirsty’s comment on Maxillaria sophronitis about humming birds. In 2000 on our first visit to Brazil students took this lovely photograph of a humming bird visiting Cattleya wittigiana. Students recorded six species visiting the flowers but only one species of hummingbirds removing pollen.
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It is a fantastic photo of the hummingbird!
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Thank you for the feedback and the photo of the hummingbird in action. What a special moment that must have been and you captured it on camera ! Thank you for posting. Whereabouts in Brazil was this taken please ? Its very interesting to see another species of orchid also that the hummingbird visits. Thank you Kirsty
The humming bird photo was taken in the forests above Macae de Cima – I took a group of 18 students to stay with the Millars (Rio Atlantic Forest Trust) http://equatorialplants.com/