Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Ecuadorian Hillstar (Oreotrochilus chimborazo) - HBW 5, p. 623
French: Colibri du Chimborazo
German: Ecuador-Andenkolibri
Spanish: Colibrí del Chimborazo
Other common names: Violet-hooded Hillstar; Chimborazo Hillstar (chimborazo)
Taxonomy: Trochilus Chimborazo DeLattre and Bourcier, 1846, Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador.
Forms a superspecies with O. estella, O. stolzmanni and O. leucopleurus, and all four have been considered conspecific, but separated largely on morphological grounds. Race soederstroemi is sometimes thought to be an intergrade of jamesonii and nominate, but it is apparently isolated geographically from both of them. Three subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- jamesonii Jardine, 1849 - mountains of extreme S Colombia and N Ecuador (Cotacachi, Pichincha, Iliniza, Antisana, Cotopaxi).
- soederstroemi Lönnberg & Rendahl, 1922 - C Ecuador (Mt Quilotoa).
- chimborazo (DeLattre & Bourcier, 1846) - C Ecuador (Mt Chimborazo, possibly also Azuay).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A young bird being fed by its mother, then trying out its wings. Locality Antisana Ecological Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador
Robert Schaefer 12 November 2008 4 years ago 53 sec 4.8 -
A female arranging the nest with vegetal material. Locality Napo Province, Ecuador (ssp soederstroemi)
Yanayacu Biological Station 4 October 2005 4 years ago 46 sec 4.6 -
A male resting on a Chuquiragua flower. Locality Antisana Ecological Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador
Robert Schaefer 12 November 2008 4 years ago 28 sec 4.5 -
A female resting on a branch. Locality Antisana Ecological Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador
Robert Schaefer 12 November 2008 4 years ago 23 sec 4.5 -
An adult male perched on a Chuquiraqua shrub in a stiff breeze at an elevation of 4100 meters Locality Antisana Volcano, Antisana Ecological Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador (ssp jamesonii)
Don DesJardin 31 August 2006 5 years ago 20 sec 4.5 -
A female bringing material to the nest and flying away. Locality Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo Province, Ecuador (ssp soederstroemi)
Yanayacu Biological Station 4 October 2005 4 years ago 16 sec 4.3
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Male perched on top of a flowered Chuquiragua
Locality Antisana Volcano, Antisana Ecological Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador
Dubi Shapiro 25 February 2009 1 year ago 4.6 -
Male spreading is wings on top of a flowered Chuquiragua
Locality Antisana Volcano, Antisana Ecological Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador
Dubi Shapiro 25 February 2009 1 year ago 4.5 -
Male perched and feeding from Chuquiragua flowers.
Locality El Cajas National Park, Azuay Province, Ecuador
Greg and Yvonne Dean 21 October 2012 16 weeks ago 4.2 -
juvenil sitting on the nest, which is build on a toilet entrance of a mountain refuge at Chimborazo National Park - 4.800 meters
Locality Chimborazo Faunistic Reserve, Ecuador (ssp chimborazo )
Thore Noernberg 4 October 2010 26 weeks ago 4 -
A male perched on a rock in open country.
Locality Antisana Ecological Reserve, Napo Province, Ecuador (ssp jamesoni)
Scott Olmstead 18 November 2007 3 years ago 4 -
juvenil sitting on a nest - this place is on the toilet of the mountain refuge in the National Park Chimborazo at 4.800 m altitu
Locality Chimborazo Faunistic Reserve, Ecuador (ssp chimborazo )
Thore Noernberg 4 October 2010 26 weeks ago 3.8
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