Violet-throated Starfrontlet
Coeligena violifer (Gould, 1846)
Spanish: Inca Boliviano
The Violet-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena violifer) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 7.4 g and its bill is 39.2 mm long. It lives in Peru and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.4 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 39.2 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 Coeligena incas, starfrontlets
What Coeligena share: Long, straight bills.
Where it lives · 2 countries
Others in the genus Coeligena
- Gould's Inca Coeligena inca
- Rainbow Starfrontlet Coeligena iris
- Green Inca Coeligena conradii
- White-tailed Starfrontlet Coeligena phalerata
- Collared Inca Coeligena torquata
- Dusky Starfrontlet Coeligena orina
- Black Inca Coeligena prunellei
- Buff-winged Starfrontlet Coeligena lutetiae
- Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni
- Perija Starfrontlet Coeligena consita
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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