The greenish puffleg has only 8,398 observations on Birds of the World and 798 photos. It is found in a sliver of eastern Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and a sliver of Peru.
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Wikipedia state that "[m]ales of the nominate subspecies have green upperparts with a coppery hue on the head and neck. The underparts are duller green with a grayish white scaly appearance. The leg puffs are white on the outside and buff on the inside. The slightly forked tail is blue-black. Females are similar but their underparts are more heavily scaled and their leg puffs entirely white." There are six subspecies, and the non-nominate subspecies we saw, caucensis, which we saw on the Montezuma Mountain road in Tatama NNP and at Montezuma Rainforest Lodge, "has grass green upperparts with a more intense coppery tinge on the head and rump than the nominate, and also a white patch on the belly."
It's weird in your photos how the "puffleg" part almost looks like a mirror, or maybe even an erasure. Was it shiny? I can't remember.
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