Festive coquette
| Festive coquette | |
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| Male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Lophornis |
| Species: | L. chalybeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophornis chalybeus (Temminck, 1821)[2] | |
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The festive coquette (Lophornis chalybeus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.[1] It is found in northwestern South America, the region of the western Amazon Basin, in the countries of northwest Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru. To the southeast it is found in adjacent Bolivia, a population in Argentina, and a separated range on the southeast coast of Brazil, in the state of Espírito Santo and southwest in a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) coastal strip.
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Female
Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest, at altitudes up to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).[3]
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Lophornis chalybeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Alan P. Peterson's nomenclatural analysis.
- ↑ Cook, Fred; Jenni Bruce (2004). The encyclopedia of animals: a complete visual guide. University of California Press. p. 331. ISBN 0-520-24406-0.
External links
- Festive coquette videos, photos, and sounds at the Internet Bird Collection
- Festive coquette photo gallery VIREO
- Photo-Medium Res; Article tropicalbirding
- Photo-High Res; Article splatzone.nl
- Lophornis chalybeus in the Flickr: Field Guide Birds of the World
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