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Golden-breasted Puffleg (Eriocnemis mosquera)

Golden-breasted Puffleg
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Golden-breasted Puffleg

The golden-breasted puffleg (Eriocnemis mosquera) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. The golden-breasted puffleg is monotypic. However, at one time it was suggested that the northern and southern populations formed subspecies.

Source: Golden-breasted puffleg on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 1 recording for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Ecuador in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.