Coppery-naped Puffleg
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| Coppery-naped Puffleg | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Trochiliformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Eriocnemis |
| Species: | E. luciani |
| Trinomial name | |
| Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia Taczanowski, 1874 |
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Eriocnemis sapphiropygia |
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The Coppery-naped Puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia, is a species of hummingbird found in the Andes in Peru in wet montane forest edges between 2000-4000 m altitude. It is usually considered a subspecies of the Sapphire-vented Puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani.
[edit] References
- Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5, J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal (eds.), Barcelona, 1999
- Hummingbird splits
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