PICAFLOR DE ARICA

Picaflor de Arica

 

 

 

 

Picaflor de Arica:

NAME (S) LOCAL (S):
Hummingbird, Hummingbird

DISTRIBUTION IN CHILE:
Arica and nearby valleys. Occasionally the coastal area to Antofagasta.

HABITAT:
Gardens, squares and vegetated areas of the oases.

DESCRIPTION:
Length: 8 cms.

Male: Head and upper parts olive green metallic. Throat iridescent, purple red and black side view front view, other white underparts cinnamon. Cola with metallic olive green central rectrices, the outer thin blackish brown. Black straight bill.

Female: Similar to male, not the purplish red of the throat with white across the bottom cinnamon, becoming brown towards the flanks and subcaudal. Central rectrices metallic green, and external with external light brown beard and white tip.

Arica Hummingbird with 8 cms. long, is the smallest bird of Chile, and one of the world's smallest. It is found in Arica, and in the valleys and oases near, down occasionally on the coastal zone in Cobija, north of Antofagasta, where the record belongs southernmost. In any case, unlikely to live permanently in the arid areas of that part of the coast, so its presence in these areas should be extremely rare.

Their identification is facilitated due to its small size, and its black and straight bill. The female can be confused with the female hummingbird Cora (Thaumastura cora), even though it is more whitish underparts.



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