Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Purple-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus viola) - HBW 5, p. 637
French: Héliange violette
German: Purpurkehl-Sonnennymphe
Spanish: Colibrí Violeta
Taxonomy: Heliotrypha viola Gould, 1853, banks of River Marañón = Chachapoyas, Peru.
Relationships with congeners poorly known. Monotypic.
Distribution: W slope of Andes in S Ecuador and N Peru (S in W to Cajamarca, in E to Amazonas).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male perched near feeders, looking around Locality Utuana, Loja Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Richard Garrigues 13 January 2007 4 years ago 10 sec 2.9
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Adult male perched on thin twig, low in a tree at Bosque de Hanne.
Locality Utuana, Loja Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Pia Öberg 4 February 2007 40 weeks ago 4 -
Adult male just taking off from his perch, thereby showing his long, forked tail.
Locality Utuana, Loja Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Pia Öberg 4 February 2007 40 weeks ago 3.9 -
Adult male perched low in a tree, about to take off and thereby showing how angles makes big difference in how colours show on i
Locality Utuana, Loja Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Pia Öberg 4 February 2007 40 weeks ago 3.9 -
Male at feeder
Locality Utuana, Loja Province, Ecuador
Conan Guard 18 December 2007 3 years ago 3
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Calls given in flight from one bird. Locality Llama, Cajamarca Department, Peru
(Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 1 September 2003 2 years ago 2
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