Buff-winged Starfrontlet - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by firecrest15
Guango Lodge, eastern Andes, Ecuador, April 2015

Identification

Immature
Photo by Sylvester_b
Ecuador, October 2005

14 cm (5½ in)

South America: found in the central Andes of Colombia to Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru.

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Subspecies albimaculata is not generally recognised^[2].

Photo by kitefarrago
Guango Lodge, Napo Province, Ecuador, July 2016

High elevation temperate (cold and wet) rainforest reserve with pasture.

Their diet consists mostly of nectar with the addition of arthropods.

They lay 2 white eggs in a cup-shaped nest, which is built about 3 m above ground in a tree fork.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2015)
BF Member observations

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Buff-winged Starfrontlet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Buff-winged_Starfrontlet