Order: Apodiformes | Family: Trochilidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Female| Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Sub-adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Tumbes, Peru
Status: The Violet-bellied Hummingbird is uncommon in humid forest of extreme northwest Peru in Tumbes where it ranges generally below 750 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Colibrí de Vientre Violeta.
Sub-species: Violet-bellied Hummingbird (Chlorestes julie feliciana), Lesson, 1844.
Meaning of Name: Chlorestes: Gr. khlōros= green and esthēs, esthētos= clothes, clothing. julie: In honor Anne-Julie Mulsant née de Ronchivol (1801-1868) wife of French ornithologist Martial Etienne Mulsant.
Formerly known as Damophila julie (2019).
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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.