Colourful Puffleg
Eriocnemis mirabilisMeyer de Schauensee, R, 1967
English (US) Colorful Puffleg
UK name: Colourful Puffleg
The Colourful Puffleg (Eriocnemis mirabilis) 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: west slope of western Andes of Colombia (Cauca)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Eriocnemis mirabilis
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Colorful Puffleg
- English (UK)
- Colourful Puffleg
- Described by
- Meyer de Schauensee, R, 1967
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Meyer de Schauensee, R, 1967
- Original description
- Notulae Naturae no.402 p.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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