Kolibri (Hummingbirds)
Rufous-crested Coquette
Lophornis delattrei
- epik
- 52 km/h
- Risiko rendah
One of the tiniest hummingbirds, with a spiky rufous crest bigger than its body deserves. Small package, enormous drama.
- Populasi
- 50,000–499,999 mature individuals (decreasing)
- Habitat
- Humid evergreen/montane forest edges, secondary growth, clearings, forest openings, roadsides, and semiopen shrubby habitat, roughly 500–2,000 m elevation
- Fakta menarik
- Males sport a spiky rufous crest and pump their tails in flight, giving them an insect-like appearance that can cause them to be mistaken for sphinx moths.
- Sebaran
- Andean/Central American slopes from Costa Rica and Panama south through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, with a vagrant record in Brazil
- Makanan
- Nectar from flowering plants (e.g. Inga, Myrtaceae, Verbenaceae) supplemented with small insects caught by hawking
- Ukuran
- 0,065 m
- Masa hidup
- 4 tahun
