Violet-headed Hummingbird (Klais guimeti)

Other Names (World)
Violet-headed Hummingbird, Violet-crowned Hummingbird(!)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
9.10 - 10.30 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bourcier, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From 50 - 1,900 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

Violet-headed Hummingbird (Klais guimeti) [XC274637]
by Ross Gallardy from Las Heliconias Lodge, Alajuela, Costa Rica (song)

Violet-headed Hummingbird (Klais guimeti) [XC238385]
by Niels Krabbe from Zamora-Chinchipe: R\u00edo Bombuscaro, Ecuador (call)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Abeillia. Closely related to Stephanoxis. Nominate and subspecies pallidiventris intergrade in south-eastern Ecuador.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

merrittii (Lawrence, 1861) - Eastern Honduras to eastern Panama.
guimeti (Bourcier, 1843) - Northern and western Venezuela through eastern Colombia and Ecuador to extreme northern and north-eastern Peru and extreme north-western and northern Brazil.
pallidiventris Stolzmann, 1926 - Eastern Peru and west-central Bolivia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Violet-headed Hummingbird (Klais guimeti) - 10 files

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