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Festive Coquette

Lophornis chalybeus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernNectarForestCup nestTiny · 3 g
Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 1
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Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 2
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Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 3
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Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 4
Photo: Daniel S. Katz · CC BY 4.0
Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 5
Photo: Daniel S. Katz · CC BY 4.0
Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 6
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Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 7
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Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 8
Photo: Daniel S. Katz · CC BY 4.0
Festive Coquette (Lophornis chalybeus), photo 9
Photo: Daniel S. Katz · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The festive coquette is 7.5 to 9.1 cm (3.0 to 3.6 in) long; adults weigh about 3 g (0.11 oz). Both sexes have a short, straight, black bill. Their upperparts are bronzy green with a pale band across the rump, their lower rump and undertail coverts are purplish bronze, and their tail is purplish copper with pale tips on the outer feathers. Adult males have an iridescent green forehead with a band of stiff black feathers around it. They have green cheek tufts tipped with white and a ruff around the bill and chin that is glittering green with white tips.

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When to see the Festive Coquette

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Festive Coquette

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.

About the Festive Coquette

The festive coquette is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is endemic to Brazil.

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Easily confused with

Tufted Coquette (Lophornis ornatus) Tufted CoquetteLophornis ornatusThe tufted coquette is 6.6 centimetres (2.6 in) long and weighs 2.3 grams (0.081 oz). White-crested Coquette (Lophornis adorabilis) White-crested CoquetteLophornis adorabilisThe white-crested coquette is about 7 cm (2.8 in) long and weighs about 2.7 g (0.095 oz). Rufous-crested Coquette (Lophornis delattrei) Rufous-crested CoquetteLophornis delattreiRufous-Crested Coquettes are of 6.4 cm to 7.0 cm in length, have a wingspan of 4.0 cm to 4.5 cm, and have weigh an average of 2.8g.

Side by side: Black-crested Coquette vs Festive Coquette · Festive Coquette vs Rufous-crested Coquette · Festive Coquette vs Tufted Coquette · Festive Coquette vs White-crested Coquette · Festive Coquette vs Frilled Coquette

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