Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi)

Other Names (World)
Green-crowned Woodnymph, Emerald-bellied Woodnymph (hypochlora)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
9.50 - 10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(DeLattre & Bourcier, 1846)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 1,900 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia (B), Ecuador (B), Panama (B), Peru.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Mexican Woodnymph (Thalurania ridgwayi), Blue-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) and Fork-tailed Woodnymph (Thalurania furcata). Species limits unclear, and all have been considered conspecific. Alternatively, green-crowned present species sometimes considered conspecific with blue-crowned Mexican Woodnymph (Thalurania ridgwayi) and purple-crowned Blue-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica). This lumping supported by great similarity of these forms, apart from crown colour of male, and indeed male of present species shows some blue feathering at rear of glittering green crown which decreases with distance from adjacent purple-crowned forms. Also female plumages of present species and Blue-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) very similar. Distinctive subspecies hypochlora may be a separate species, or possibly referable to Blue-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica). Subspecies subtropicalis may not be distinguishable from verticeps.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

fannyi (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) - Eastern Panama and extreme north-west to south-western Colombia.
subtropicalis Griscom, 1932 - West-central Colombia, in Cauca Valley and along adjacent western and central Andes. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Blue-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica).
verticeps (Gould, 1851) - Pacific slope of western Andes of extreme south-western Colombia and north-western Ecuador. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Blue-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica).
hypochlora Gould, 1871 - Pacific lowlands of Ecuador. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Emerald-bellied Woodnymph (Thalurania hypochlora).
nigricapilla Vald�s-Vel�squez et Schuchmann, 2009 - Northern Colombia to Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Guianas, eastern Brazil.

References
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