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Chestnut-breasted Coronet
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Chestnut-breasted Coronet

Boissonneaua matthewsii (Bourcier, 1847)

Spanish: Colibrí Pechirrojo

The Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 7.7 g and its bill is 23.3 mm long. It lives in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
7.7 g, about 8 paperclips
Bill
23.3 mm
Lives in
Forest
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, decreasing

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
  3. Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
  4. Genus Boissonneaua coronets

What Boissonneaua share: Often hold their wings raised for a moment after landing.

Where it lives · 3 countries

Others in the genus Boissonneaua

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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