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ViewsTurquoise-throated PufflegFrom Opus
[edit] Identification10-11 cm. Green, turquoise throat, violet blue untertailcoverts and a straight black bill, gold green upperparts and underparts, bue-green rump and uppertail coverts, blue-black forked tail. The females lacked the throat patches, its plumage was less light and the belly was more golden. It had strikingly leg-puffs of dense white downy feather tufts. [edit] Distribution[edit] Taxonomy[edit] HabitatScrubland plains. [edit] StatusClassified as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List, and is possibly extinct1. [edit] Behaviour[edit] ReferencesBirdLife International (2008) Species factsheet: Eriocnemis godini. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2/8/2008. [edit] External Links
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