Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix)

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.

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) [XC58600]
by Andrew Spencer from Paz de las Aves, Pichincha, Ecuador (call)

Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix) [XC261752]
by Jonas Nilsson from Esmeraldas: San Vicente Alto, Cordillera de Lachas, Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve, Ecuador (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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