Haplophaedia | |
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Greenish puffleg, Haplophaedia aureliae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Heliantheini |
Genus: | Haplophaedia Simon, 1918 |
Type species | |
Trochilus aureliae[1] Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846
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Species | |
2-3, see text |
Haplophaedia is a small genus of hummingbirds, which – together with the members of the genus Eriocnemis – are known as pufflegs. They are found at low levels in humid forest, woodland and shrub at altitudes of 1,200 to 3,100 m (3,900 to 10,200 ft) in the Andes of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. All species have a straight black bill, a coppery-green plumage, and a slightly forked dark blue tail. The leg-puffs are white in the greenish and hoary pufflegs, and buff-tinged in the buff-thighed puffleg.