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The blue-bearded helmetcrest is about 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long. It has a short straight bill. The male has a long black and white crest and a mostly dusky face with a buffy-white "collar". Its upperparts are olive green. Its throat has a thin white "beard" with a purplish blue center stripe. The rest of the underparts are dingy buff with olive spots that blends to buffy white on the undertail coverts. The tail is moderately long and forked. Voice: As of February 2022, Xeno-canto had two recordings of blue-bearded helmetcrest vocalizations and Cornell University's Macaulay Library had 13.
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When to see the Blue-bearded Helmetcrest
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Blue-bearded Helmetcrest
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Blue-bearded Helmetcrest
The blue-bearded helmetcrest is an Endangered species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia.
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Easily confused with
Green-bearded HelmetcrestOxypogon gueriniiThe green-bearded helmetcrest is 11.2 to 12.7 cm (4.4 to 5.0 in) long.
Buffy HelmetcrestOxypogon stuebeliiThe buffy helmetcrest is 11.2 to 12.7 cm (4.4 to 5.0 in) long.
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