Coppery-naped Puffleg

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Coppery-naped Puffleg
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Trochiliformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Eriocnemis
Species: E. sapphiropygia
Binomial name
Eriocnemis sapphiropygia
Taczanowski, 1874

The Coppery-naped Puffleg, Eriocnemis sapphiropygia, is a species of hummingbird found in the Andes in Peru in wet montane forest edges between 2000-4000 m altitude. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Sapphire-vented Puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani.

[edit] References

  • Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5, J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal (eds.), Barcelona, 1999
  • Hummingbird splits