Antillean crested hummingbird
| Antillean crested hummingbird | |
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| Antillean crested hummingbird in Morne Diablotins National Park, Dominica | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Orthorhyncus Lacépède, 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, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles
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Antillean crested hummingbird feeding at a flower in Dominica
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Nest and eggs MHNT
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, semi-arid forests and heavily degraded former forest.
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References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Orthorhyncus cristatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.