White-vented Plumeleteer

About the White-vented Plumeleteer

The white-vented plumeleteer (Chalybura buffonii) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Most taxonomic systems assign five subspecies to the white-vented plumeleteer:

C. b. micans Bangs & Barbour, 1922 C. b. buffonii Lesson, RP, (1832) C. b. aeneicauda Lawrence, 1865 C. b. caeruleogaster Gould, (1847) C. b. intermedia Hartert, EJO & Hartert, CBE, 1894 However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) assigns C. b. intermedia as a subspecies of bronze-tailed plumeleteer (C. urochrysia).

Both C. b. caeruleogaster and C. b. intermedia have at times been proposed as separate species. The white-vented plumeleteer is 10.5 to 12 cm (4.1 to 4.7 in) long. Males weigh 6 to 7.3 g (0.21 to 0.26 oz) and females 5.9 to 7.9 g (0.21 to 0.28 oz). All of the subspecies except intermedia have a black bill and black feet; that one has a pinkish base to the mandible and pale pink to red feet.

Males of the nominate subspecies C. b. buffonii have mostly dark metallic green upperparts with a bronzy tinge to the crown... Wikipedia →