Golden-tailed sapphire
Appearance
Golden-tailed sapphire | |
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male in eastern Ecuador | |
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female C. o. oenone | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Chrysuronia Bonaparte, 1850 |
Species: | C. oenone
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Binomial name | |
Chrysuronia oenone (Lesson, 1832)
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The golden-tailed sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
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Description
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.
References
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Trochilinae
- Hummingbird species of South America
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of the Venezuelan Andes
- Birds of the Venezuelan Coastal Range
- Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon
- Birds of the Peruvian Amazon
- Birds of the Bolivian Amazon
- Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
- Birds described in 1832
- Hummingbird stubs