Green-bearded Helmetcrest
Oxypogon guerinii(Boissonneau, A, 1840)
English (US) Green-bearded Helmetcrest
The Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii) 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: páramo of eastern Andes of Colombia (south to Cundinamarca)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oxypogon guerinii
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Green-bearded Helmetcrest
- Described by
- (Boissonneau, A, 1840)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ornismia Guerinii
- Described by
- (Boissonneau, A, 1840)
- Type locality
- Bogota, Colombia.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 3 p.7
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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