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 LC    Empress Brilliant* Id (Atlas):
    Heliodoxa imperatrix

Description (10)
Image of Empress Brilliant (Immature)
 

Other Names (World)
Empress Brilliant, Empress Eugenie's Hummingbird

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
12.20 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gould, 1856)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest. From 400 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Colombia, Ecuador.

Pacific slope from west-central Colombia to north-western Ecuador.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (9)...)

 
Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix) [XC364164]
     by rudy gelis from Pichincha: Mindo area, Ecuador (flight call, song, flight calls\/song)

 
Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix) [XC108952]
     by Olaf Jahn from Las Tangaras. El Carmen. Choco, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
Long segregated in monospecific genus Eugenia on the basis of its long, very deeply forked tail.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix) - 10 files


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