Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Golden-bellied Starfrontlet (Coeligena bonapartei) - HBW 5, p. 629
French: Inca de Bonaparte
German: Goldbauch-Andenkolibri
Spanish: Inca Ventridorado
Other common names: Dusky Starfrontlet (orina)
Taxonomy: Ornismia bonarpartei [sic] Boissonneau, 1840, Bogotá, Colombia.
Probably forms superspecies with C. eos, C. helianthea, C. lutetiae and C. violifer; traditionally considered to include C. eos as race, but probably best considered separate species on the basis of plumage characters. Taxon orina, known from single specimen (probably an immature male), is often considered a separate species; however, it may be best considered a race of present species, or it may even represent some melanistic plumage. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- consita Wetmore & Phelps, Jr., 1952 - Sierra de Perijá, along Colombia-Venezuela border.
- bonapartei (Boissonneau, 1840) - E Andes of Colombia (Boyacá S to Bogotá).
- orina Wetmore, 1953 - Páramo de Frontino in Antioquia (NC Colombia).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A female. firstly feeding then perching on a wire, then joined by the male Locality Colibri del Sol Bird Reserve, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp Dusky starfrontlet (Coeligena orina)
Cedric Prys-Roberts 18 February 2012 6 weeks ago 41 sec 4.2 -
A female. firstly feeding then perching on a wire, then joined by the male Locality Colibri del Sol Bird Reserve, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp Dusky starfrontlet (Coeligena orina)
Cedric Prys-Roberts 18 February 2012 6 weeks ago 41 sec 4 -
Adult male perching on wire and intermittently dropping to feeder Locality Colibri del Sol Bird Reserve, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp Coeligena orina)
Cedric Prys-Roberts 18 February 2012 9 weeks ago 18 sec 4 -
A male. Feeders in the forest/paramo ecotone. Locality Páramo Frontino Reserve, Urrao, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp orina)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 1 January 2010 2 years ago 24 sec 3.5
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female on a branch
Locality Subachoque, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 11 March 2011 1 year ago 3.8 -
Female in flight. As gold as it gets
Locality Subachoque, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 11 March 2011 1 year ago 3.5 -
A male. Feeders in the forest/paramo ecotone.
Locality Páramo Frontino Reserve, Urrao, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp orina)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 1 January 2010 2 years ago 3.3 -
Male Colombian endemic Dusky Starfrontlet at feeders in the forest/paramo ecotone.
Locality Páramo Frontino Reserve, Urrao, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp orina)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 1 January 2010 2 years ago 3 -
A male. Feeders in the forest/paramo ecotone.
Locality Páramo Frontino Reserve, Urrao, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp orina)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 1 January 2010 2 years ago 2.7
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