Green-crowned brilliant

Green-crowned brilliant
Male, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Female
Both in Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Heliodoxa
Species:
H. jacula
Binomial name
Heliodoxa jacula
Gould, 1850
Range of H. jacula

The green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) is species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama.[3][4] It is also known as the green-fronted brilliant.[5]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Green-crowned Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List. v 12.1. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  4. ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved 27 May 2021
  5. ^ Stiles, F.G. (2013) [1999]. del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Green-fronted Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula)". Birds of the World Alive. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 20 October 2021.