Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica)
About the Crowned Woodnymph
The crowned woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) or violet-crowned woodnymph, is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found from Belize and Guatemala to far-northern Peru. The crowned woodnymph was formally described in 1843 by the French ornithologist Jules Bourcier from a specimen collected in Colombia. He coined the binomial name Ornismya colombica. This species is now placed in the genus Thalurania that was introduced by John Gould in 1848. Seven subspecies are recognised: T. c. townsendi Ridgway, 1888 T. c. venusta (Gould, 1851) T. c. colombica (Bourcier, 1843) T. c. rostrifera Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1956 T. c. fannyae (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) T. c. subtropicalis Griscom, 1932 T. c. verticeps (Gould, 1851) T. c. hypochlora Gould, 1871
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Listed as recorded in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.