The Bronzy inca can be found in a narrow belt of cloud rain forest from Venezuela, down through the Andes, to central Bolivia. It is often difficult to spot because it perches inside bushes and trees and rarely, as in this picture, is actually found in the open. For being a hummingbird, it is unusually flexible in the selection of flowers; it forages at almost all levels and uses a variety of blossoming species. The Brozy inca defends its territory of flowers and even attacks competing insects.