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The violet-capped hummingbird is 8 to 11 cm (3.1 to 4.3 in) long. Males weigh 4 to 6.1 g (0.14 to 0.22 oz) and females 4 to 5 g (0.14 to 0.18 oz). Both sexes have a medium length straight bill that is blackish and sometimes has a dark brown tip to the mandible. The adult male has a glittering violet-blue forehead and crown, dark golden-green upperparts, and a steel blue forked tail. Its underparts are brilliant green with greenish to bluish undertail coverts. The adult female is entirely green above and dirty white to pale buff below. Voice: What is thought to be the violet-capped woodnymph's song is "a monotonous rapid series of evenly spaced metallic chips, 'chip..chip..chip...'". In flight it makes "short dry chips, often dry trill or chatter".
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When to see the Violet-capped Woodnymph
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 Violet-capped Woodnymph
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Violet-capped Woodnymph
The violet-capped woodnymph is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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Easily confused with
Fork-tailed WoodnymphThalurania furcataFork-tailed woodnymph males are 9.5 to 12.9 cm (3.7 to 5.1 in) long and weigh 3.6 to 6 g (0.13 to 0.21 oz).
Long-tailed WoodnymphThalurania watertoniiThe long-tailed woodnymph is sexually dimorphic.
Crowned WoodnymphThalurania colombicaMale crowned woodnymphs are 9.5 to 11.5 cm (3.7 to 4.5 in) long and weigh 4 to 5.5 g (0.14 to 0.19 oz).
Side by side: Crowned Woodnymph vs Violet-capped Woodnymph · Scaly-breasted Hummingbird vs Violet-capped Woodnymph · Fork-tailed Woodnymph vs Violet-capped Woodnymph
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