Please help us name this bird!
As you know, we're volunteering at the Shrewsbury museum and working on their bird collection. Most of them are British birds and we've been pretty successful at identifying them. However, we've now run across a display containing several birds. Most of them are North American and we've got those, but this one has us puzzled.
Its main color is a beautiful purplish blue - the color in the upper photo is pretty close to the real thing. Upper back, upper wings and end of tail are black. Underwings are yellow and crown is irridescent light blue (similar to cyan in computer colors).In the upper photo you can see John's arm. This is a small bird, about the size of a large hummingbird. It's wings are hummingbird-like also. In fact, John thinks it is a humming bird, but we have no idea which one. We've been searching the web, but have failed.
I'm sorry the pictures are rather poor, but we took them without flash in the low light of the museum. I have other (even worse) pictures and can send more details if necessary.
We'd like to name it in our database for completeness, so PLEASE, if you know what it is let us know at: joanarnfield@gmail.com or arnfield.2@osu.edu
Thanks.
