Humboldt's Sapphire - BirdForum Opus

Chrysuronia humboldti

Hylocharis humboldti

Distribution

Extreme southeastern Panama to Colombia and northwestern Ecuador¹.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Some authorities² regard this taxon to be conspecific with Blue-headed Sapphire.

Habitat

Mangroves and adjacent lowlands

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Dickinson EC (ed.) 2003. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN 9780691117010
3. SACC proposal to split Humboldt's Sapphire from Blue-headed Sapphire

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