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Calypte anna

[edit] Identification

10cm

• Glossy green back
• Grey below
• Green flanks
• Long, straight and slender bill
  

Male:

• Glossy red crown and throat
• Dark tail
  

Female and juvenile:

Female
Photo by Redwing
Walnut,California, April 2009

• Green crown
• Grey throat with some red marking
• Dark tail with white tips.

[edit] Distribution

North, South and Central America: found in the arid south-west of British Columbia to north-western Baja; winters to northern Mexico

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Open wooded or shrubby areas and mountain meadows.

[edit] Behaviour

Juvenile
Photo by UncleGus_24
Green Valley, Arizona, September 2010

[edit] Breeding

The female builds a large, round, cup nest in a shrub or tree from very small twigs, lichen and other mosses, and often lined with downy feathers or animal hair. It is bound together with spider silk.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes nectar and insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

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