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- Lafresnaya lafresnayi
Identification
White outer tail feathers, curved bill, males are black below, females and immatures are speckled, with white bellies.
Distribution
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Seven subspecies are recognized[1].
- L. l. liriope - Santa Marta Mountains (northeast Colombia)
- L. l. longirostris - northern portion of the Central Andes of Colombia
- L. l. greenewalti - Andes of western Venezuela (northeast Táchira, Mérida and southern Trujillo)
- L. l. lafresnayi - Sierra de Perijá, extreme southwestern Andes of Venezuela (Páramo de Tamá, in southern Táchira) and the Eastern Andes of Colombia
- L. l. saul - Western Andes of Colombia, and both slopes of Andes of Ecuador and of northern Peru (north and west of the Marañón Valley)
- L. l. orestes - east slope of Andes of northern Peru (Amazonas, south of the Marañón Valley)
- L. l. rectirostris - east slope of Andes of northern and central Peru (La Libertad to Cuzc
Habitat
High altitudes
Behaviour
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Mountain Velvetbreast. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Mountain_Velvetbreast
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
