Loja Hummingbird

Loja Hummingbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Trochiliformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Amazilia
Species: A. alticola
Binomial name
Amazilia alticola
Gould, 1860

The Loja Hummingbird, Amazilia alticola, is a species of hummingbird found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru in the edges of cloud forest and open scrub between 1000 and 2200 m altitude. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Amazilia Hummingbird, Amazilia amazilia.

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