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Turquoise-throated Puffleg
Plate 1 of 3. J. Gould (1849-87), no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN CR · Critically endangered

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Turquoise-throated Puffleg

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Turquoise-throated Puffleg

Eriocnemis godini

The turquoise-throated puffleg (Eriocnemis godini), also known as Godin's puffleg, is a species of hummingbird from Ecuador. It is mostly green with blue undertail coverts and white powder-puffs of downy feathers on the legs, and the male has a bluish-purple throat patch. It is only known from a few specimens taken in the nineteenth century and its taxonomic position is unclear. The type of habitat in which the type species was recovered has largely disappeared, and...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 6285.