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 LC    Green-crowned Brilliant* Id (Atlas):
    Heliodoxa jacula

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Green-crowned Brilliant, Green-fronted Brilliant

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
Male: 12 - 13 cm
Female: 10.50 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1850

Habitat
Wet montane forests including edges, gaps and tall secondary growth. From 700 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

 
Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) [XC858797]
     by Nick Athanas from Mindo, Punto ornitologico, Ecuador (call)

 
Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) [XC260492]
     by Jorge Gabriel Campos from Pichincha: side road NW of San Miguel de Los Bancos, Ecuador (flight call, flight calls, wing noise)

Nest
A bulky cup composed of plant fibres and scales of tree ferns saddled on a thin downsloping branch.

Eggs (Guide)
2; white; 16.5 x 11 mm. Incubation: by female.

Subspecies
Subspecies jamesoni often spelt jamersoni, due to a typographical error present in original description.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • henryi Lawrence, 1867   -  Costa Rica and western Panama.
  • jacula Gould, 1850   -  Extreme eastern Panama to northern and central Colombia.
  • jamersoni (Bourcier, 1851)   -  Andes of south-western Colombia and western Ecuador.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) - 10 files


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