White-vented Plumeleteer (Chalybura buffonii intermedia)

Order: Apodiformes Family: Trochilidae IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Colombia

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Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Colombia

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Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Venezuela

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Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Colombia


Identification & Behavior: ~11 cm (4.3 in). The male White-vented Plumeleteer is mostly green with bluish on the throat and breast. The female is green above and gray below.  The bill is slightly decurved with reddish mandible and black culmen. The tail is slightly notched with blue underside in the male and grayish blue with gray tips in the female. Both sexes have a distinctive white vent and undertail coverts. The white vent and uppertail coverts are diagnostic but see the smaller female Green-crowned Woodnymph.

Status: The White-vented Plumeleteer is uncommon and restricted to the humid forest of extreme northern Peru in Tumbes. It also occurs in Co, and Ec.

Name in Spanish: Colibrí de Buffon.

Sub-species: White-vented Plumeleteer (Chalybura buffonii intermedia), E. Hartert and C. Hartert, 1894.

Meaning of Name: Chalybura:  Gr. khalups, khalubos= steel and oura= tail. buffonii: In honor of George-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) French naturalist, Director of the Jardin du Roi in Paris.

See more of the Family Trochilidae   peru aves

Distribution Map
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References:

    • 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.