Festive Coquette
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| Lophornis chalybeus Vieillot, 1823 |
The Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. 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 2000km coastal strip.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
[edit] Source
- BirdLife International 2004. Lophornis chalybeus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
[edit] External links
- Festive Coquette videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Festive Coquette photo gallery VIREO
- Photo-Medium Res; Article tropicalbirding
- Photo-High Res; Article splatzone.nl
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