Rufous-crested Coquette (Lophornis delattrei)

Other Names (World)
Rufous-crested Coquette, Dusky Coquette (melaniae)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
7.90 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lesson, 1839)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical heavily degraded former forest. From 600 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Rufous-crested Coquette (Lophornis delattrei) [XC10084]
by William Adsett from El Valle de Anton, Cocle, Panama (call)

Rufous-crested Coquette (Lophornis delattrei) [XC763172]
by Guilherme de Melo Becher from Plataforma, San Martin, Peru (flight call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Short-crested Coquette (Lophornis brachylophus) and possibly Spangled Coquette (Lophornis stictolophus) and has been considered conspecific with Short-crested Coquette (Lophornis brachylophus). Proposed species "Lophornis melaniae", apparently from Colombia, probably represents aberrant individuals or faded skins of present species. It is not, as previously reported, melanistic. Bolivian birds were tentatively split as subspecies regulus, but, despite some possible differences in female plumage, probably best treated as synonym of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

lessoni Simon, 1921 - Pacific and Caribbean slopes of south-western Costa Rica and Panama, and central and eastern Andes of Colombia (Magdalena Valley and Santander).
delattrei (Lesson, 1839) - Eastern Peru and northern Bolivia (to Beni and Santa Cruz).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Rufous-crested Coquette (Lophornis delattrei) - 10 files

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