Birds of the World


Golden-bellied Starfrontlet (Coeligena bonapartei) Male Range: SA: e Colombia Chicaque Natural Park, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Golden-bellied Starfrontlet (Coeligena bonapartei) Female Range: SA: e Colombia Chicaque Natural Park, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Bronzy Inca (Coeligena coeligena) Range: SA: n Venezuela to se Bolivia Otún Quimbaya Wildlife Sanctuary, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Perched.
On nest.


Green Inca (Coeligena conradii) Range: SA: ne Colombia and nw Venezuela (Trujillo to n Táchira) National Park Sierra Nevada, Tabay, Venezuela
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Perija Starfrontlet (Coeligena consita) Endangered Range: SA: Perijá Mts. (ne Colombia and w Venezuela)

Split from the Golden-bellied Starfrontlet because of plumage differences. Note buff wing patches like the Buff-winged Starfrontlet, but male has a golden belly.

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Golden-tailed Starfrontlet (Coeligena eos) Range: SA: w Venezuela


Blue-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena helianthea helianthea) Male Range: SA: ne Colombia and w Venezuela La Calera, Cundinamarca, Colombia
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Blue-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena helianthea helianthea) Female Range: SA: ne Colombia and w Venezuela Chingaza, Colombia
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Gould's Inca (Coeligena inca omissa) Range: SA: se Peru to Bolivia Wayqecha, Peru Gould's Inca, a race of Collared Inca found in Peru and Bolivia, and sometimes considered a species.
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Rainbow Starfrontlet (Coeligena iris) Range: SA: Ecuador and Peru Ecuador
Photograph by Robert Lewis © All Rights Reserved.


Buff-winged Starfrontlet (Coeligena lutetiae lutetiae) Male Range: SA: Colombia to Peru PNN Los Nevados, Colombia
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Buff-winged Starfrontlet (Coeligena lutetiae lutetiae) Female Range: SA: Colombia to Peru PNN Los Nevados, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Dusky Starfrontlet (Coeligena orina) Male Endangered Range: SA: nc Colombia ProAves Dusky Starfrontlet Reserve, Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia
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Dusky Starfrontlet (Coeligena orina) Female Endangered Range: SA: nc Colombia ProAves Dusky Starfrontlet Reserve, Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Although most common at the paramo in Urrao, there are various records in the western Andes.


White-tailed Starfrontlet (Coeligena phalerata) Near Threatened Range: SA: ne Colombia ProAves El Dorado Reserve, Santa Marta Sierra Nevada, Magdalena, Colombia
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White-tailed Starfrontlet (Coeligena phalerata) Female Near Threatened Range: SA: ne Colombia Santa Marta Sierra Nevada, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Black Inca (Coeligena prunellei) Male Vulnerable Range: SA: nc Colombia ProAves Cerulean Warbler Reserve, San Vicente de Chucuri, Santander, Colombia
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Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata torquata) Male Range: SA: nw Venezuela and Colombia to s Peru Rio Blanco Ecological Reserve, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia Male is more black than green, and female more green than black.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Violet-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena violifer) Range: SA: n Peru to nw Bolivia Manu Road, Peru
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com © All Rights Reserved.


Violet-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena violifer) Male Range: SA: n Peru to nw Bolivia Carpish Tunnel, Peru
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Violet-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena violifer violifer) Male Range: SA: n Peru to nw Bolivia Corani, Bolivia Bolivian subspecies.
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Violet-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena violifer) Female Range: SA: n Peru to nw Bolivia Carretera Satipa, Peru
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.

Found from south Ecuador to Bolivia, and split into four species by HBW because of color differences. The males of the four subspecies vary in amount of buff coloration, and blue or green foreheads.


Brown Inca (Coeligena wilsoni) Range: SA: w Colombia to w Ecuador ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

From side.