Help with ID

[Adams Serra]

I took this photograph while in SE Brasil last month. This is one of three species of hummingbird that would come to my hummingbird feeder every day.
MKIII
F4.0
1/1600
ISO1250
600mm
Natural light

All comments are appreciated

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Adam,

Can't help you with an ID but boy this is a fantastic image!!.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Hi Adams!

Beautiful bird, image, BG.
I have a question for you: did you take this image in a middle highland or lowland?
Now, this guy looks like a Green-crowned Brilliant Helidoxa jacula female, but they can´t be found in Brazil.
May be you will have to get a copy of Birds of Brazil.

[Adams Serra]

Hi Adams!

Beautiful bird, image, BG.
I have a question for you: did you take this image in a middle highland or lowland?
Now, this guy looks like a Green-crowned Brilliant Helidoxa jacula female, but they can´t be found in Brazil.
May be you will have to get a copy of Birds of Brazil.
Juan,
Thank you for the comments, this image was made in S.E brazil in a town about 100m above sea level.

[John Chardine]

Just came back to this thread to see if we had come to a conclusion. Juan has made a suggestion but the observation would be out of the typical range for the species he suggests. I checked my de la Peña and Rumboll field guide which covers southern Brazil and there is no hummer in that book which resembles this one. We will just have to keep working on it!