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Green-bearded Helmetcrest

Oxypogon guerinii

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicNectarShrublandCavity nestTiny · 5 g
Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii), photo 1
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii), photo 2
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii), photo 3
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii), photo 4
Photo: Holder, Joseph Bassett; Wood, J. G. · Public domain
Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii), photo 5
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii), photo 6
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Green-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon guerinii), photo 7
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The green-bearded helmetcrest is 11.2 to 12.7 cm (4.4 to 5.0 in) long. Males weight about 5.7 g (0.20 oz) and females 4.8 g (0.17 oz) It has a short straight black bill. The adult male has a long white crest and a mostly dark brown to black face with a white "collar". Its upperparts are bronzy. It has a thin glittering green gorget with white edges that forms a "beard". The rest of the underparts are grayish bronzy. The tail is moderately long, forked, and coppery to bronzy green with much white on the outer feathers. Voice: Few of the green-bearded helmetcrest's vocalizations have been described, but one is "an insistent 'tii…tii…'" given by males chasing a female.

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When to see the Green-bearded Helmetcrest

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

Where to see the Green-bearded Helmetcrest

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia

About the Green-bearded Helmetcrest

The green-bearded helmetcrest is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is endemic to Colombia.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Buffy Helmetcrest (Oxypogon stuebelii) Buffy HelmetcrestOxypogon stuebeliiThe buffy helmetcrest is 11.2 to 12.7 cm (4.4 to 5.0 in) long. White-bearded HelmetcrestOxypogon lindeniiThe white-bearded helmetcrest is about 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long and weighs about 4.8 g (0.17 oz). Blue-bearded Helmetcrest (Oxypogon cyanolaemus) Blue-bearded HelmetcrestOxypogon cyanolaemusThe blue-bearded helmetcrest is about 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long.

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