Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ForestCup nestTiny · 12 g

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 1 — Photo: Rafaella Cevallos Larrea · CC BY 4.0

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 2 — Photo: caseyhh · CC0

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 3 — Photo: caseyhh · CC0

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 4 — Photo: Tom Field · CC BY 4.0

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 5 — Photo: Tom Field · CC BY 4.0

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 6 — Photo: Abby Darrah · CC BY 4.0

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 7 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Rafaella Cevallos Larrea, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Abby Darrah, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Fiery Topaz sounds like

Sonogram of the Fiery Topaz: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Napo: 'Gareno (Guaponi) Lodge', Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Topaza pyra can reach a body length of about 19 cm (7.5 in). There is strong sexual dimorphism between the males and females. Both have a dark brown iris, but males are larger on average than females. Males of these brilliantly marked hummingbirds have a back, lower breast, upperwing-coverts, and outer webs of the innermost two remiges that are shining orange-red, becoming more orange on the belly, shading over the rump into the yellow-green/green uppertail-coverts.

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When to see the Fiery Topaz

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Fiery Topaz

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ecuador Colombia Brazil Peru

Recorded as a rare visitor in Venezuela.

About the Fiery Topaz

The fiery topaz is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It has brilliant iridescent plumage and resides in northern South America, where it consumes nectar and insects.

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Easily confused with

Crimson TopazTopaza pellaThe male crimson topaz is 21 to 23 cm (8.3 to 9.1 in) long including the 5 cm (2.0 in) bill and 8.6 to 12 cm (3.4 to 4.7 in) tail, and weighs 11 to 18 g (0.39 to 0.63 oz).

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