Finding the Elusive White-Tipped Sicklebill
Clip: Season 41 Episode 10 | 2m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
The white-tipped sicklebill is one of Costa Rica's most elusive hummingbirds.
The white-tipped sicklebill is one of Costa Rica's most elusive hummingbirds. Filmmakers turned to Costa Rican expert Anthony Jimenez to help them locate and film the bird.
Major support for NATURE is provided by The Arnhold Family in memory of Henry and Clarisse Arnhold, The Fairweather Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Kathy...
Finding the Elusive White-Tipped Sicklebill
Clip: Season 41 Episode 10 | 2m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
The white-tipped sicklebill is one of Costa Rica's most elusive hummingbirds. Filmmakers turned to Costa Rican expert Anthony Jimenez to help them locate and film the bird.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Normally that one just, probably come from there to just - My name is Anthony Jimenez.
I live in Costa Rica, I'm 26 years old.
I'm Costa Rican nature tour guide, and I work here in Cocora in these beautiful gardens.
El Cocora is a private reserve.
Here we have places where nature lovers, where bird watchers, many photographers visit us here, interested in our endemic species.
White-tipped sicklebill.
White-tipped sicklebills is considered one of the most rare species in Costa Rica.
One of the most difficult to see.
This species Heliconia ramonensis is endemic to Costa Rica and Panama.
This is one of the main flowers for sicklebills that we can find in the tropical cloud forest.
This flower have an adaptation for the sicklebill.
It's the same shape of them bills.
I can, I can hear something.
It's right there, it's right - It's coming.
It's coming.
(bird wings fluttering) [Anthony] It's beautiful.
White-tipped sicklebills have very strange behaviors comparing with the other hummingbirds.
Normally, they come from the ground to feed on these type of flowers.
They like to be hanging upside down.
We can see every morning if the mark is fresh.
That means the hummingbird is visiting the flower.
This is a good information for me to tell what's the best time to, to take photos of them.
Yes!
(hands clapping) So the people can visit us here to, to enjoy them.
To learn about the hummingbirds, why they need to plant this specific plant, and why working in the Costa Rican forest conservation.
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