Lesser Violetear (Colibri cyanotus)
About the Lesser Violetear
The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus), also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica south to the Andes and Argentina and east to Venezuela. This species and the Mexican violetear were formerly considered as conspecific and named the 'green violetear'.
A real field recording of the Lesser Violetear. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 349 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Brown VioletearColibri delphinaerecording
- Mexican VioletearColibri thalassinusprofile
- Sparkling VioletearColibri coruscansrecording
- White-vented VioletearColibri serrirostrisprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.