Kids Lesser Violetear T-shirt Stickers It hawks in flight

It hawks in flight

This bird benefits from bluebird boxes that can greatly increase nesting success

This species has seen a 40% decline in population over the last fifty or sixty years

0 oz/yd² (237 g/m²)

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Kids Lesser Violetear T-shirt Stickers It hawks in flightThe Lesser Violetear represents part of a taxonomically difficult hummingbird genus, and it was recently considered conspecific with the Mexican Violetear as the Green Violetear. The nearly identical Mexican Violetear is found further north, including occasionally in Texas, and very rarely further north and east in the US. The Lesser Violetear is found in lush, humid mountain forests from Costa Rica south, to the Andean foothills, and from there, down