Antillean Crested Hummingbird
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| Antillean Crested Hummingbird | |
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| Antillean crested hummingbird in Morne Diablotins National Park, Dominica | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Orthorhyncus Lacépède, 1799 |
| Species: | O. cristatus |
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| Orthorhyncus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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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 and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
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[edit] References
- BirdLife International 2004. Orthorhyncus cristatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
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