Black-breasted Puffleg
Eriocnemis nigrivestis (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)
Spanish: Calzadito Pechinegro
The Black-breasted Puffleg (Eriocnemis nigrivestis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 4.5 g and its bill is 19.3 mm long. It is found only in Ecuador. Its IUCN Red List status is Endangered, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 4.5 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 19.3 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Endangered, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Ecuador
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
- Genus Eriocnemis pufflegs
What Eriocnemis share: Fluffy 'puffs' of feathers on the legs, often white.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Eriocnemis
- Gorgeted Puffleg Eriocnemis isabellae
- Glowing Puffleg Eriocnemis vestita
- Black-thighed Puffleg Eriocnemis derbyi
- Turquoise-throated Puffleg Eriocnemis godini
- Coppery-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis cupreoventris
- Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani
- Golden-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis mosquera
- Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides
- Colorful Puffleg Eriocnemis mirabilis
- Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis aline
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.
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