Haplophaedia
Appearance
Haplophaedia | |
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Greenish puffleg, Haplophaedia aureliae | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Heliantheini |
Genus: | Haplophaedia Simon, 1918 |
Type species | |
Trochilus aureliae[1] Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846
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Species | |
2-3, see text |
Haplophaedia is a small genus of hummingbirds, which – together with the members of the genus Eriocnemis – are known as pufflegs. They are found at low levels in humid forest, woodland and shrub at 1200 to 3100 m altitudes. asl in the Andes of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. All species have a straight black bill, a coppery-green plumage, and a slightly forked dark blue tail. The leg-puffs are white in the greenish and hoary pufflegs, and buff-tinged in the buff-thighed puffleg.
Species
[edit]Three species are currently recognized,[2] though the buff-thighed puffleg is sometimes considered a subspecies of the greenish puffleg.
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Greenish puffleg | Haplophaedia aureliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) |
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Buff-thighed puffleg
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Haplophaedia assimilis (Elliot, 1876) Two subspecies
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Bolivia and Peru![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Hoary puffleg | Haplophaedia lugens (Gould, 1852) |
Colombia and Ecuador.![]() |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
NT
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References
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- ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- Heynen, I. (1999). Genus Haplophaedia. Pp. 643 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, J. eds. (1999). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3