Tyrian Metaltail

Metaltails
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]

  1. ^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.
  2. ^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.
  3. ^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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