Blue-bearded helmetcrest | |
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At Lagos de Sevilla, Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia, photographed by Carole Turek of Hummingbird Spot | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Oxypogon |
Species: | O. cyanolaemus
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Binomial name | |
Oxypogon cyanolaemus | |
The blue-bearded helmetcrest (Oxypogon cyanolaemus) is a Critically Endangered species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia.[3][4][1]