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Yanacocha Reserve, Ecuador, December, 2007

Diglossa lafresnayii

[edit] Identification

Glossy Black showing blue/gray shoulders

[edit] Distribution

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• D. h. nocticolor :

• Santa Marta Mountains of northern Colombia and Sierra de Perijá (western Venezuela)

• D. h. humeralis:

• Eastern Andes of Colombia and south-western Venezuela (Páramo de Tamá)

• D. h. aterrima:

• Western and Central Andes of Colombia to Ecuador and north-western Peru

[edit] Habitat

Subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

[edit] Behaviour

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links