Purple-backed thornbill | |
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Female in Puracé National Natural Park, Cauca, Colombia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Ramphomicron |
Species: | R. microrhynchum
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Binomial name | |
Ramphomicron microrhynchum (Boissonneau, 1840)
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Distribution of Purple-backed thornbill |
The purple-backed thornbill (Ramphomicron microrhynchum) is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.[3][4]