Green-crowned Plovercrest (Stephanoxis lalandi)

Other Names (World)
Green-crowned Plovercrest, Plovercrest, Black-breasted Plovercrest, DeLalande’s Plovercrest, Violet-crested Plovercrest, Loddiges’s Plovercrest

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
9 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1818)

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Green-crowned Plovercrest (Stephanoxis lalandi) [XC332803]
by id from Itatiaia National Park - Agulhas Negras road, Brazil (song)

Green-crowned Plovercrest (Stephanoxis lalandi) [XC326197]
by Jerome Fischer from Serra do Mar State Park. Curucut\u00fa, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies loddigesii sometimes considered a distinct species.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

lalandi (Vieillot, 1818) - Eastern Brazil (southern Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, north-eastern São Paulo).
loddigesii (Gould, 1831) - Eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones) to southern Brazil (southern São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Violet-crowned Plovercrest (Stephanoxis loddigesii).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Green-crowned Plovercrest (Stephanoxis lalandi) - 10 files

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