Green-and-white Hummingbird
Elliotomyia viridicauda(Berlepsch, HHCL, 1883)
English (US) Green-and-white Hummingbird
The Green-and-white Hummingbird (Elliotomyia viridicauda) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: east slope of Andes of Peru (southern Huánuco to southern Puno)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Elliotomyia viridicauda
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Green-and-white Hummingbird
- Described by
- (Berlepsch, HHCL, 1883)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Leucippus viridicauda
- Described by
- (Berlepsch, HHCL, 1883)
- Type locality
- Hiuro, 4800 feet, Peru.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.5, vol.1, no.4 p.493
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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