Antillean crested hummingbird
Appearance
Antillean crested hummingbird | |
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Antillean crested hummingbird in Morne Diablotins National Park, Dominica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Orthorhyncus Lacépède, 1799 |
Species: | O. cristatus
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Binomial name | |
Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
Synonyms | |
Trochilus cristatus Linnaeus, 1758 |
The Antillean crested hummingbird (Orthorhyncus cristatus) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. 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 forest, semiarid forest and heavily degraded former forest.
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