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Photo by steveblain
The individual pictured is a female, race cleavesi
Guango, Ecuador

Chaetocercus heliodor

Acestrura heliodor

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

This is a scarce hummingbird found on the eastern side of the Andes in Central and north-western South America: found in Panama, Colombia Venezuela and Ecuador

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• C. h. heliodor:

• Andes of Colombia and western Ecuador to north-western Venezuela (Mérida)

• C. h. cleavesi:

• Andes of north-eastern Ecuador

[edit] Habitat

Temperate forest

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

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. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] External Links