Coppery-naped Puffleg
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| Eriocnemis sapphiropygia Taczanowski, 1874 |
The Coppery-naped Puffleg, Eriocnemis sapphiropygia, is a species of hummingbird found in the Andes in Peru in wet montane forest edges between 2000-4000 m altitude. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Sapphire-vented Puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani.
[edit] References
- Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5, J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal (eds.), Barcelona, 1999
- Hummingbird splits
