Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Purple-bibbed Whitetip (Urosticte benjamini) - HBW 5, p. 643
French: Colibri de Benjamin
German: Purpurbrustkolibri
Spanish: Colibrí Puntablanca Occidental
Other common names: (Green-vented) Whitetip
Taxonomy: Trochilus Benjamini Bourcier, 1851, Gualea, Ecuador.
On the basis of behaviour, genus belongs to a clade including Eriocnemis, Haplophaedia and Ocreatus. Genus sometimes merged into Adelomyia. Sometimes considered conspecific with U.ruficrissa, based on intermediate characters of birds from NE Peru; this population has often been awarded race intermedia, but differences probably constitute a cline within present species; Peruvian population sometimes transferred to U. ruficrissa; more study required. Proposed race “rostrata” (W Colombia) is probably based on an aberrant individual. Mon.. View all taxonomy...
On the basis of behaviour, genus belongs to a clade including Eriocnemis, Haplophaedia and Ocreatus. Genus sometimes merged into Adelomyia. Sometimes considered conspecific with U.ruficrissa, based on intermediate characters of birds from NE Peru; this population has often been awarded race intermedia, but differences probably constitute a cline within present species; Peruvian population sometimes transferred to U. ruficrissa; more study required. Proposed race “rostrata” (W Colombia) is probably based on an aberrant individual. Monotypic.
Distribution: Pacific slope of W Colombia (headwaters of R San Juan) S to SW Ecuador (El Oro) and NE Peru.
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A male arriving to a branch and then flying away Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 7 years ago 30 sec 4.7 -
A male on a branch and at a feeder, showing its iridescent throat Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 8 years ago 43 sec 4.7 -
A male at two feeders in the rain Locality Sachatamia Lodge, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 2 February 2005 7 years ago 27 sec 4.7 -
A male feeding at a feeder Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Anna Motis 16 August 2006 5 years ago 24 sec 4.5 -
A female feeding on a feeder Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Anna Motis 16 August 2006 5 years ago 21 sec 4.5 -
A female at a feeder Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 8 years ago 26 sec 4.5
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male perched
Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp benjamini)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 2 September 2009 3 years ago 4.4 -
Adult female portrait
Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Rafael Merchante 15 November 2010 4 weeks ago 4.2 -
A male on a feeder
Locality Refugio Paz de las Aves, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 28 September 2009 3 years ago 4 -
Male at feeders
Locality Alambi Cloud Forest Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
David Weaver 13 March 2013 4 weeks ago 3.7 -
Adult at feeders
Locality Sachatamia Lodge, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
David Weaver 1 year ago 3.7 -
A male perched at a feeder
Locality Sachatamia Lodge, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
David Hollie 6 February 2007 2 years ago 3.7
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Calls in flight from one bird near a hummer feeder. Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(ssp benjamini)
Nick Athanas 2 March 2007 3 years ago 2
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