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Female
Photo by WilsonDiaz
Sangal Valley, Cajamarca, Peru, April 2007

Lesbia nuna

[edit] Identification

Relatively straight bill

[edit] Similar Species

Black-tailed Trainbearer has a bill that is more strongly curved.

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• L. n. gouldii:

• Andes of Colombia; old record from western Venezuela (Mérida)

• L. n. gracilis:

  Andes of Ecuador

• L. n. pallidiventris:

• Andes of northern Peru

• L. n. eucharis (chlorura):

• Andes of central Peru (Huánuco)

• L. n. (boliviana):

• Andes of south-western Peru and northern Bolivia

[edit] Habitat

[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