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The short-crested coquette is 7 to 7.5 cm (2.8 to 3.0 in) long. Both sexes have a short, straight, black bill. The adult male has a short rufous erectile crest; its longest feathers have green tips. It has emerald green upperparts with a white band between the back and the bronzy purple lower rump and green uppertail coverts. The throat is iridescent emerald green and the face features short orange cheek tufts tipped green. A white band separates the throat from the rest of the underparts, which are pale cinnamon.
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When to see the Short-crested Coquette
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Short-crested Coquette
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Short-crested Coquette
The short-crested coquette is a Critically Endangered species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is endemic to a small area of Mexico.
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Easily confused with
Dot-eared CoquetteLophornis gouldiiThe dot-eared coquette is 6.8 to 7.6 cm (2.7 to 3.0 in) long and weighs 2.4 to 2.8 g (0.085 to 0.099 oz).
Butterfly CoquetteLophornis verreauxiiThe butterfly coquette is 7.5 to 9.1 cm (3.0 to 3.6 in) long.
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