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'''Male''': Bluish above and Cinnamon below. Face somewhat darker.<br />
 
'''Male''': Bluish above and Cinnamon below. Face somewhat darker.<br />
 
'''Female'' is brownish green above and a dingy yellow below with streaks on throat and chest.
 
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Female [[White-sided Flowerpiercer]] is often darker brown with a (usually concealed) whitish flank stripe. Female Rusty may show yellowish wing bars and (especially) pale fringes to the tertials. It may also be paler
  
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==

Revision as of 13:39, 24 April 2023

Photo by Pitter
Dapa-Valle Colombia
Diglossa sittoides

Identification

11 cm (4¼ in); Bicolored
Male: Bluish above and Cinnamon below. Face somewhat darker.
'Female is brownish green above and a dingy yellow below with streaks on throat and chest.

Similar species

Female White-sided Flowerpiercer is often darker brown with a (usually concealed) whitish flank stripe. Female Rusty may show yellowish wing bars and (especially) pale fringes to the tertials. It may also be paler

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Female
Photo by Pitter
Dapa.Valle Colombia

There are 5 subspecies[1]:

  • D. s. hyperythra:
Northern Colombia (Santa Marta Mountains) and coastal mountains of northern Venezuela
  • D. s. dorbignyi:
Andes of Colombia and western Venezuela (Lara, Mérida and Táchira)
  • D. s. coelestis:
Sierra de Perijá (Colombia/Venezuela border)
  • D. s. mandeli:
  • Subtropical mountains of north-eastern Venezuela (Mount Turumiquire in Sucre)
  • D. s. decorata:
  • D. s. sittoides:

Habitat

Juvenile
Photo by STEFFRO1
Ollantaytambo, Peru, August 2015

Mountainous areas, particularly shrubby areas, pastures, open woodland scrub and forest edges.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of nectar and a variety of small insects.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2015)

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External Links

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