Black-crested coquette

Black-crested coquette
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Lophornis
Species: L. helenae
Binomial name
Lophornis helenae
(Delattre, 1843)

The black-crested coquette (Lophornis helenae) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Black-crested coquette

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