Shining-green Hummingbird - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Magdalena Valley, Colombia, March 2012

Identification

Four subspecies are recognized:

L. g. luminosa (N Colombia, coast), throat yellowish emerald to gold, rump+back bronzy, UTC coppery, central tail bronzy
L. g. goudoti (C Colombia) bronzy lower rump, bluish central tail
L. g. zuliae (NW Venezuela) smaller overall size, reddish bronzy on central tail and on upper tail coverts
L. g. phaeochroa (NW Venezuela), white belly, less deep forked tail, greenish central tail, bluish head and throat

Lower elevation dry to semidry forests, gallery forest, semi-open areas and scrubland.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
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