Order: Apodiformes | Family: Trochilidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia
Status: The Mountain Velvetbreast is uncommon in montane forests along most of the east slope of the Andes. It also occurs in humid montane forest on the west slope of the Andes of Piura and Cajamarca. The Mountain Velvetbreast generally ranges at elevations between 1800-3200 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Colibrí Aterciopelado.
Sub-species: Mountain Velvetbreast (Lafresnaya lafresnayi saul), DeLattre and Bourcier, 1846. Andes of SW Colombia S through Ecuador and extreme N Peru (E Piura, W Cajamarca).
(Lafresnaya lafresnayi orestes), J. T. Zimmer, 1951. Andes of N Peru (Amazonas).
(Lafresnaya lafresnayi rectirostris), Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1902. E slope in Peru from La Libertad S to Apurímac and Cuzco).
Meaning of Name: Lafresnaya: In honor of Noël Frédéric Armand André Baron de La Fresnaye (1783-1861) French ornithologist and collector.
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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.