Birds of Peru

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Chrysuronia (1 species, 10 worldwide)


Golden-tailed Sapphire
Golden-tailed Sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone oenone) Male
Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
  Golden-tailed Sapphires northward of north Peru have a blue head.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Golden-tailed Sapphire
Golden-tailed Sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone josephinae) Male
Aconabikh Reserve, San Martín, Peru
  The josephinae race in Peru and Bolivia has just a blue crown and not a blue head.
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.

Golden-tailed Sapphire
Golden-tailed Sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone oenone) Female
Vereda Verdeyaco, Putumayo, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.



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