Olive-spotted hummingbird
Appearance
Olive-spotted hummingbird | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Talaphorus Mulsant & Verreaux, 1874 |
Species: | T. chlorocercus
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Binomial name | |
Talaphorus chlorocercus Gould, 1866
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The olive-spotted hummingbird (Talaphorus chlorocercus) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in western Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and far southeastern Colombia.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Description
8 cm in length. Dull metallic green above, crown slightly browner, with white postocular spot. Whitish below, throat with a few olive spots, sides washed greenish. Tail green with grayish tips on outer feathers.[2]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Leucippus chlorocercus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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(help) - ^ Ridgely, Robert and Paul Greenfield. The Birds of Ecuador. Volume II: Field Guide. Cornell, 2001