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Purple-crowned Plovercrest
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Purple-crowned Plovercrest

Stephanoxis loddigesii (Vigors, 1831)

Spanish: Colibrí Copetón Sureño

The Purple-crowned Plovercrest (Stephanoxis loddigesii) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 4.0 g and its bill is 19.1 mm long. It lives in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.

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At a glance

Weight
4.0 g, about 4 paperclips
Bill
19.1 mm
Lives in
Gardens & towns
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
  4. Genus Stephanoxis plovercrests

Where it lives · 3 countries

Others in the genus Stephanoxis

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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