Gray's Hummingbird (Amazilia grayi)

Other Names (World)
Gray's Hummingbird, Blue-headed Sapphire, Gray's Sapphire, Puritan Sapphire, Humboldt's Sapphire (humboldtii)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
10.90 cm

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

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From 500 - 2,000 m, occasionally up to 2,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia (B), Ecuador (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
Hylocharis grayi (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Gray's Hummingbird (Amazilia grayi) and Humboldt's Hummingbird (Amazilia humboldtii) following SACC (2005).

Formerly segregated in monospecific genus Eucephala. Subspecies are so different in coloration, measurements and ecology that they should perhaps be considered separate species, probably forming a superspecies.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

humboldtii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) - Extreme south-eastern Panama to north-western Ecuador. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Humboldt's Hummingbird (Amazilia humboldtii).
grayi (DeLattre & Bourcier, 1846) - Western Colombia and northern Ecuador.

References
See References.

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