Order: Apodiformes | Family: Trochilidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Southeast Peru
Identification & Behavior: ~8 cm (3.1 in). The male and female Butterfly Coquette are green above with a white band across the rump. The male has an iridescent green forehead, face, and cheeks with long ornate feathers tipped with white. The underparts are grayish-green. The tail and rump are brown. The female has gray-brown underparts with a broad pale malar streak. The female is similar to the female Black-bellied Thorntail but is distinguished by having solid gray-brown underparts
Status: The Butterfly Coquette is rare in the canopy and mid-canopy of forest in Amazonia. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Coqueta Mariposa.
Sub-species: Butterfly Coquette (Lophornis verreauxii), Bourcier, 1853.
Meaning of Name: Lophornis: Gr. Lophos= crest, tuft and ornis= bird. verreauxii: In honor of the French naturalists and collectors Edouard Verreaux (1810-1868) and Jules Pierre Verreaux (1808-1873).
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.