Antillean crested hummingbird
Not to be confused with Orthorhynchus.
| Antillean crested hummingbird | |
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| Antillean crested hummingbird in Morne Diablotins National Park, Dominica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Orthorhyncus Lacépède, 1799 |
| Species: | O. cristatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Orthorhyncus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
The Antillean crested hummingbird (Orthorhyncus cristatus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, north-east Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, semi-arid forests and heavily degraded former forest.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Orthorhyncus cristatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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