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- Coeligena inca
Identification
- Long straight black bill
- Mostly green upperside
- Black head with green above the bill and white behind the eye
- Lightly forked tail where the outer tail feathers have a large area of white
- Green and black throat
- Rufous-orange upper breast, in male continued as a complete collar
- Female has head less strongly marked and the collar extending to include the entire throat but not around the neck.
Variation
Subspecies inca has a darker rufous collar than omissa.
Distribution
South America: Peru and Bolivia.
Taxonomy
This species was formerly included in Collared Inca.
Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognized[1]. C. i. omissa:
- Andes of south-eastern Peru (Urubamba to Puno)
C. i. inca:
- Andes of Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba)
Habitat
Wet forest around 1600-3200 m asl.
Behaviour
Feeds on nectar and insects.
Vocalisation
Not known.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.1)_red. Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- del Hoyo, J., T. Züchner, N. Collar, E. de Juana, P. F. D. Boesman, and G. M. Kirwan (2022). Gould's Inca (Coeligena inca), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (B. K. Keeney, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.colinc3.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Gould's Inca. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 5 October 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gould%27s_Inca
