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14th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
The fairy hummingbird

A rarely seen Black eared fairy hummingbird visits a flower of a flame tree in the heart of the Atlantic rain forest in Brazil.A photo that took 2 months to shoot, having to rely on a beam of sunlight penetrating the rain forest to illuminate the flower and a extreme amount of luck for the hummingbird to visit the flower at the same time.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2016
Date Uploaded: 10.2016
Photo Location: Itatiaia, Brazil
Copyright: © christian spencer