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 bird at two feeders Locality Sachatamia Lodge, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 2 February 2005 7 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 7 years ago 15 sec 4.2 -
male visiting perch Locality Las Tangaras Nature Reserve, Choco Department, Colombia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 24 May 2012 6 weeks ago 16 sec 4 -
Various views of a perched male Locality Septimo Paraiso, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Greg Baker 25 September 2004 13 weeks ago 30 sec 4 -
A bird at a feeder Locality Sachatamia Lodge, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 2 February 2005 7 years ago 15 sec 3.8 -
A female perched Locality Refugio Paz de las Aves, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Richard Garrigues 26 January 2008 4 years ago 4 sec 3.8
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Areally nice female on a nest
Locality Montezuma Peak Road, Montezuma Peak, Tatama National Park, Colombia
Manakin Nature Tours 23 March 2012 46 weeks ago 3
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