Tyrian Metaltail
Metaltails | |
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Tyrian metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Trochilinae |
Genus: | Metallura Gould, 1847[1] |
Short-billed hummingbird found near tree line in the high Andes. Male is deep green with a dark and sometimes glittering throat patch; female is similar but lacks throat patch and is scaled buff or rufous below. Tail color varies geographically; it can be green or blue, and it can even show a bit of rufous on top, though never as much as the tail of Tyrian Metaltail. Feeds on small flowers in. Mar 08, 2007 Tyrian Metaltail. A very small hummingbird for the high altitude. Yanacocha Reserve, NW Ecuador 3/8/2007.
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The metaltails are a group of hummingbirds in the genus Metallura. It contains nine species distributed along the Andes:[2][3]
- Scaled metaltail (Metallura aeneocauda)
- Violet-throated metaltail (Metallura baroni)
- Fiery-throated metaltail (Metallura eupogon)
- Perija metaltail (Metallura iracunda)
- Neblina metaltail (Metallura odomae)
- Black metaltail (Metallura phoebe)
- Coppery metaltail (Metallura theresiae)
- Tyrian metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina)
- Viridian metaltail (Metallura williami)
References[edit]
- ^Gould, John (1847). 'Drafts for a new arrangement of the Trochilidæ'. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 94. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1847.tb00159.x.
- ^Jaime García-Moreno, Peter Arctander and Jon Fjeldså (1999). 'Strong diversification at the treeline among Metallura hummingbirds'(PDF). The Auk. 116 (3): 702–711. doi:10.2307/4089331. JSTOR4089331.
- ^Heindl, Martin; Schuchmann, Karl-L. (1998). 'Biogeography, geographical variation and taxonomy of the Andean hummingbird genus Metallura Gould, 1847'. Journal für Ornithologie. 139 (4): 425–473. doi:10.1007/BF01653470.
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