Antillean Crested Hummingbird

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Antillean Crested Hummingbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Orthorhyncus
Lacepede, 1799
Species: O. cristatus
Binomial name
Orthorhyncus cristatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Antillean Crested Hummingbird (Orthorhyncus cristatus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.

It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, north-east Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, the British Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

[edit] References

Languages