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[[Image:Tumbes_Hummingbird.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|BirdsPeru|BirdsPeru}}<br>El Limon, near Chiclayo, [[Peru]] ]]
 
;[[: Category:Leucippus|Leucippus]] baeri
 
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[[Image:Tumbes_Hummingbird.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by BirdsPeru<br>Photo taken: El Limon, near Chiclayo, [[Peru]] ]]
 
 
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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9-10 cm
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* Straight or slightly decurved, blackish bill
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* Light golden green upperparts with dark grey bordered feathers
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* Pale cinnamon to greyish-coloured underparts, becoming whitish towards belly
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* Light green tail, inner rectrices with bronzish tips, outer rectrices with dusky grey subterminal band and whitish terminal patch
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Sexes similar but femals with more greyish tips in outer rectrices. Immature plumage not described.
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
[[Ecuador]] and [[Peru]].
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Extreme southwest [[Ecuador]] (Loja) and northwest [[Peru]] (Tumbes, Piura, N Lambayeque).<br />
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A restricted-range species, fairly common in littoral region.
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
This is a monotypic species.
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This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species.
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
Dry forests and  dry shrubland.
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Dry forests and  dry shrubland. Occurs from sea-level up to 1300 m.
 
 
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
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====Diet====
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Feeds on nectar in xerophytic vegetation like cacti. Also takes small insects.
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====Breeding====
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Nothing known.
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====Movements====
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Presumably a sedentary species.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug17}}#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Jan 2018)
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{{Ref}}
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Leucippus+baeri}}
 
{{GSearch|Leucippus+baeri}}

Revision as of 16:32, 4 January 2018

Photo by BirdsPeru
El Limon, near Chiclayo, Peru
Leucippus baeri

Identification

9-10 cm

  • Straight or slightly decurved, blackish bill
  • Light golden green upperparts with dark grey bordered feathers
  • Pale cinnamon to greyish-coloured underparts, becoming whitish towards belly
  • Light green tail, inner rectrices with bronzish tips, outer rectrices with dusky grey subterminal band and whitish terminal patch

Sexes similar but femals with more greyish tips in outer rectrices. Immature plumage not described.

Distribution

Extreme southwest Ecuador (Loja) and northwest Peru (Tumbes, Piura, N Lambayeque).
A restricted-range species, fairly common in littoral region.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

Habitat

Dry forests and dry shrubland. Occurs from sea-level up to 1300 m.

Behaviour

Diet

Feeds on nectar in xerophytic vegetation like cacti. Also takes small insects.

Breeding

Nothing known.

Movements

Presumably a sedentary species.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Jan 2018)

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External Links

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