Velvet-browed Brilliant
Heliodoxa xanthogonys Salvin & Godman, 1882
Spanish: Brillante de Tepuí
The Velvet-browed Brilliant (Heliodoxa xanthogonys) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 7.0 g and its bill is 24.2 mm long. It lives in Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname and Guyana. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.0 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 24.2 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
- Genus Heliodoxa brilliants, jewelfronts, rubies
Where it lives · 4 countries
Others in the genus Heliodoxa
- Pink-throated Brilliant Heliodoxa gularis
- Rufous-webbed Brilliant Heliodoxa branickii
- Black-throated Brilliant Heliodoxa schreibersii
- Gould's Jewelfront Heliodoxa aurescens
- Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides
- Green-crowned Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula
- Empress Brilliant Heliodoxa imperatrix
- Violet-fronted Brilliant Heliodoxa leadbeateri
- Brazilian Ruby Heliodoxa rubricauda
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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