Male. From the wooden canopy tower, Sacha Lodge, Ecuador. The male is shiny turquoise-blue with a plum-purple throat. Unfortunately the throat looks black in this heavy crop. This canopy bird feeds exclusively on fruits and berries of many trees. It is apparently silent, no recordings of it exist. f/6.3, iso 800, exp comp plus one and one-third, 1/1000.
Brilliant shot superb bird