White-tailed Starfrontlet - BirdForum Opus

Coeligena phalerata

Male
Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia, July 2010

Identification

14 cm
Male is mostly green with bluish throat and white post-ocular spot. The puffs around the legs and the under-tail coverts as well as the entire tail is white and forked. Bill is long, black, and straight.
Female has similar upper side but underside rufous-cinnamon and tail is bronzy with small pale tips.

Distribution

South America: found in the Santa Marta Mountains (north-eastern Colombia).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Cloud Forest above 1400 m asl; seems to have difficulty with habitat disturbance.

Behaviour

Food includes both nectar and invertebrates. Seems to be quite territorial.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Züchner, T. and P. F. D. Boesman (2020). White-tailed Starfrontlet (Coeligena phalerata), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D.A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.whtsta1.01

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

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