Santa Marta Blossomcrown

Anthocephala floriceps

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableEndemicNectarForestTiny · 4 g

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The Santa Marta blossomcrown is about 8.4 cm (3.3 in) long. Both sexes have a straight black bill. The adult male has a buffy white forehead, a rufous chesnut hindcrown, mostly shining green upperparts, and a rusty lower back and uppertail coverts. Its underparts are grayish buff. Its tail is bronzy green with buffy tips to the feathers, and all but the central pair of feathers also have a black bar near the tip. Females and immatures are similar to the adult male but their whole crown is brownish. Voice: The Santa Marta blossomcrown's song is "a long series of repeated tsip notes".

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When to see the Santa Marta Blossomcrown

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Santa Marta Blossomcrown

Regular range

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

About the Santa Marta Blossomcrown

The Santa Marta blossomcrown is a Vulnerable species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia.

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