An apparent hybrid Heliodoxa hummingbird from the West Andes of Colombia

Liliana M. Dávalos, Thomas M. Donegan
October 2012
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Abstract

Details and photographs are presented of an individual mistnetted in the West Andes of Colombia in 1997, which seems possibly to represent a combination between Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides and Empress Brilliant H. imperatrix.

Type
Journal article
Publication
Conservación Colombiana (17), 20-25
hummingbirds Andean hummingbirds
Liliana M. Dávalos
Liliana M. Dávalos
Professor of Conservation Biology

I’m interested in biodiversity, both its past and its future.