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Violet-capped Hummingbird

Goldmania violiceps

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedNectarForestTiny · 4 g
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 1
Photo: HarmonyonPlanetEarth · CC BY 2.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 2
Photo: Aitor · CC BY 4.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 3
Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 4
Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 5
Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 6
Photo: Roger A. Morales-Flores · CC BY 4.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 7
Photo: Aitor · CC BY 4.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 8
Photo: HarmonyonPlanetEarth · CC BY 2.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 9
Photo: HarmonyonPlanetEarth · CC BY 2.0
Violet-capped Hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps), photo 10
Photo: (c) Roger A. Morales-Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The violet-capped hummingbird is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long. Males weigh 3.8 to 4.4 g (0.13 to 0.16 oz) and females 3.4 to 3.9 g (0.12 to 0.14 oz). Both sexes have a straight bill that is mostly black with a pink base to the mandible. The male's crown is iridescent violet-blue and most of the rest of the body is metallic green. Its tail is slightly forked and maroon with wide white edges to the feathers. The female has green upperparts and whitish underparts with gray spots on the throat and green ones along the side. Its tail feathers are maroon with white tips. Voice: The violet-capped hummingbird's song is "a low, rapid chirping." Its call is "a series of irregularly repeated, very nasal and fairly low-pitched notes, 'kyek...kyek-kyek-kyek...kyek...'" that is typically given while hovering or feeding.

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When to see the Violet-capped Hummingbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Violet-capped Hummingbird

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.

Panama

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

About the Violet-capped Hummingbird

The violet-capped hummingbird is a Near Threatened species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Panama and far northwestern Colombia.

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

Easily confused with

Pirre Hummingbird (Goldmania bella) Pirre HummingbirdGoldmania bellaThe Pirre hummingbird is 8.4 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long.

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