Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix) - HBW 5, p. 616
French: Brillant impératrice
German: Rotstern-Brilliantkolibri
Spanish: Brillante Emperador
Other common names: Empress Eugenie’s Hummingbird
Taxonomy: Eugenia imperatrix Gould, 1856, Andean forests in the neighbourhood of Quito (probably Pacific slope).
Long segregated in monospecific genus Eugenia on the basis of its long, very deeply forked tail. Monotypic.
Distribution: Pacific slope from WC Colombia to NW Ecuador.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A juvenile male at a feeder Locality Refugio Paz de las Aves, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Richard Garrigues 26 January 2008 3 years ago 10 sec 4.7 -
A male at a feeder, opening its tail Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 7 years ago 41 sec 4.6 -
A female at a feeder in the rain Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 7 years ago 28 sec 4.5 -
A male flying repeatedly to and from a perch Locality Refugio Paz de las Aves, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Keith Blomerley 13 November 2009 2 years ago 18 sec 4.3 -
A bird at two feeders Locality Sachatamia Lodge, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 2 February 2005 6 years ago 30 sec 4.3 -
A female feeding from the vertical support of a feeder Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 6 years ago 15 sec 4.2
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A male perched on a branch.
Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 28 January 2007 3 years ago 4.4 -
On a branch
Locality Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Guy Poisson 24 October 2011 28 weeks ago 4 -
Adult male, seen from behind at eye-level, sitting on a mossy branch.
Locality Refugio Paz de las Aves, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Pia Öberg 7 February 2011 33 weeks ago 4 -
Male at feeder.
Locality Refugio Paz de las Aves, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Miriam Bauman 22 December 2009 1 year ago 3.5 -
Closeup of male at feeder showing throat and glistening breast.
Locality Refugio Paz de las Aves, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Miriam Bauman 22 December 2009 1 year ago 3.3
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