Loja hummingbird
| Loja hummingbird | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Amazilia |
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| Subspecies: | A. a. alticola
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| Trinomial name | |
| Amazilia alticola alticola Gould, 1860
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The Loja hummingbird (Amazilia amazilia alticola) is a hummingbird found in western Ecuador on the edge of cloud forest and open scrub between 1000 and 2200 m altitude. It is usually considered a subspecies of the amazilia hummingbird (A. amazilia).
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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