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Boissonneaua flavescens

Photo by edenwatcher
Tandayapa, Ecuador, March 2006

[edit] Identification

4.5"
Bill moderately short, straight, and rather thick. Shining green above; crown and gorget glittering green; breast shining green; belly buff thickly disked green; under wing coverts cinnamon buff (conspicuous in flight); central tail feathers bronze, rest creamy buff tipped bronze.
Sexes similar.

[edit] Distribution

Northwest Venezuela south in Andes to western Ecuador.

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by rdavis
Tandayapa, Ecuador, October 2009

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

• B. f. flavescens:

• Andes of Colombia and western Venezuela (Mérida)

• B. f. tinochlora:

• Andes of south-western Colombia and adjacent north-western Ecuador

[edit] Habitat

Humid forest and forest edge, usually 1400-2800m above sea levels.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

• List of references

[edit] External Links