Mountain hummingbird [2] ( lat. Lafresnaya lafresnayi ) is a South American species of hummingbird birds from the subfamily Trochilinae within the hummingbird family ( Trochilidae ), allocated to the monotypic genus Eugenes [3] . These birds inhabit tropical and subtropical mountain humid forests and shrubs; found at an altitude of 1900 to 3600 meters above sea level [4] . The body length of the birds is ~ 9.7 cm, weight - ~ 5.3 grams [5] .
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Subspecies
- Lafresnaya lafresnayi liriope - mountains of Santa Marta (northeast of Colombia) [1] ;
- Lafresnaya lafresnayi greenewalti - west of Venezuela (northeast of Tachira , Merida , south of Trujillo ) [1] ;
- Lafresnaya lafresnayi lafresnayi - the extreme west of Venezuela (Paramo de Tama, in the south of Tachira ), as well as the eastern and central Andes of Colombia [1] ;
- Lafresnaya lafresnayi saul - Andes of the southwest of Colombia, Ecuador and the north of Peru [1] ;
- Lafresnaya lafresnayi rectirostris - north and central part of Peru [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Taxonomy and distribution (English) . Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) . IBC.Lynxeds.com. Date of treatment February 14, 2011. Archived June 12, 2012.
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 164. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Lafresnaya lafresnayi (English) . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
- ↑ Information . BirdLife.org. Date of treatment February 14, 2011. Archived June 12, 2012.
- ↑ Steven L. Hilty & Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee. Birds of venezuela. - 2. - Princeton University Press, 2003 .-- 928 p. - ISBN 0-691-09250-8 .