Coqueta Verde Sureña

Lophornis chalybeus

Colibrí diminuto con una banda blanca en la rabadilla que se encuentra en la región de la Selva Atlántica. El macho adulto tiene un fantástico tocado verde iridiscente que consiste en una barba fluida que termina en manchas blancas, y una cara y frente brillantes. La hembra y el macho joven carecen de estas características y tienen una garganta blanca con una mancha oscura en el centro; son similares a la hembra de Coqueta de cresta, pero carecen de tonos beige en la cara y la garganta. Se alimenta de una amplia variedad de flores a casi cualquier nivel, y regularmente visita comederos en algunas áreas.

Identificación

The festive coquette is 7.5 to 9.1 cm (3.0 to 3.6 in) long; adults weigh about 3 g (0.11 oz). Both sexes have a short, straight, black bill. Their upperparts are bronzy green with a pale band across the rump, their lower rump and undertail coverts are purplish bronze, and their tail is purplish copper with pale tips on the outer feathers. Adult males have an iridescent green forehead with a band of stiff black feathers around it. They have green cheek tufts tipped with white and a ruff around the bill and chin that is glittering green with white tips. Their breast is whitish streaked with black and the belly grayish brown with a blackish stripe down the middle. The adult female has blackish cheeks without the male's tufts but with a white "moustache". Its chin is pale buff with a dark spot in the center and the rest of the underparts are brownish with whitish scaling. Juveniles are similar to the adult female.

Taxonomía

The festive coquette and what are now the butterfly coquette (L. verreauxii) and peacock coquette (L. pavoninus) were for a time placed in genus Polemistria that was soon merged into the current Lophornis. The butterfly coquette was treated as conspecific with the festive coquette but was split as its own species in 2019. The festive coquette is monotypic.

Nombre científico
Lophornis chalybeus
Autoridad
(Temminck, 1821)
Orden
Apodiformes
Familia
Trochilidae
Género
Lophornis

Distribución y hábitat

The festive coquette is found in southeastern Brazil from Espírito Santo south into Santa Catarina. Several records in northeastern Argentina have not been confirmed so the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (SACC) lists it as hypothetical in that country. It inhabits humid primary and secondary forests and also cerrado. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 1,000 m (3,300 ft).

Migración
Especie residente

Comportamiento

Patrón migratorio: Especie residente.

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional: estable.

Tendencia poblacional
estable

Fotos

Distribución

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