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Photo © by Raul Padilla
Tutotepec, Mexico, September 2010
Selasphorus heloisa

Atthis heloisa

Identification

6cm

  • Greenish cinnamon
  • Rufous tail
  • Violet blue highlights

Distribution

Endemic to Mexico.

Accidental vagrant to Arizona (two 19th century specimens]].

Taxonomy

This is a polytypic species[1] consisting of 2 subspecies.

Subspecies

  • S. h. margarethae:
  • Mountains of north-western Mexico (south-eastern Sinaloa and south-western Chihuahua to Jalisco)
Adult male
Photo © by Peter R. Bono
San Jose del Pacifico, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2009
  • S. h. heloisa:
  • Highlands of Mexico (central Tamaulipas to Guerrero and Oaxaca)

An additional subspecies morcomi is generally considered invalid[1].

Habitat

Cloud forest.

Behaviour

Breeding

The female builds the cup nest from finely woven plant fibre bound with spiders web, and is suspended from a leaf. The clutch consists of 2 white eggs.

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. Birds of Ambergris Caye

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