- Eriocnemis.
While most
pufflegs remain fairly common,
three species (colorful
puffleg, black-breasted
puffleg and
gorgeted puffleg) are
critically endangered...
-
different from that of
other Eriocnemis pufflegs that they
should have
their own genus. The
colorful puffleg is
about 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long....
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belly more golden. Like all
pufflegs it has
striking leg-puffs of
dense white downy feather tufts. The turquoise-throated
puffleg is a
subject of a taxonomical...
- much support. The
greenish and buff-thighed
pufflegs are now
treated as
sister species. The
greenish puffleg is 9 to 11.6 cm (3.5 to 4.6 in) long and weighs...
-
captures and
allowed comparison of the
birds to
specimens of
other Eriocnemis pufflegs. The
decision that it is a new
species was
published in 2007.
Later that...
- sapphire-vented
puffleg's call is
described as a "sharp tirr tirr". The IUCN
follows HBW
taxonomy and so ****esses the sapphire-vented and "coppery-naped"
pufflegs separately...
- blue chin. Both ****es have a
straight black bill, a
forked tail and
white pufflegs, from
which the
common name is derived.
Fledglings are ****ually dimorphic...
- The
glowing puffleg (Eriocnemis vestita) is a
species of
hummingbird in the "brilliants",
tribe Heliantheini in
subfamily Lesbiinae. It is
found in Colombia...
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Greenish puffleg,
Haplophaedia aureliae Buff-thighed
puffleg,
Haplophaedia ****imilis ****y
puffleg,
Haplophaedia lugens Eriocnemis Black-breasted
puffleg, Eriocnemis...
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greenish and ****y
pufflegs, and buff-tinged in the buff-thighed
puffleg.
Three species are
currently recognized,
though the buff-thighed
puffleg is sometimes...
