Birds of the World

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Oreonympha (1 species)



Bearded Mountaineer
Bearded Mountaineer (Oreonympha nobilis)
Range: SA: c Peru
Ollantaytambo, Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Most closely related to the 'oxypogon' Helmetcrest hummingbirds in the Colombian and Venezuelan Andes, but larger and with a longer bill.
Back side.


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