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Bronzy Inca
- Scientific name
- Coeligena coeligena
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Habitat
- Forest mixed
- Wing shape
- Pointed
- Tail shape
- Notched
Where it came from
The Bronzy Inca, scientifically known as Coeligena coeligena, was first described by the French ornithologist Auguste Boissonneau in 1840. Part of the Trochilidae family, this hummingbird inhabits the humid montane forests of the northern Andes, ranging across parts of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Its classification reflects the nineteenth-century surge in European biological expeditions to South America, where naturalists sought to catalog the region's immense avian diversity.
The bird is characterized by its iridescent, bronzed-green plumage, which serves as both a tool for camouflage within the dappled light of high-altitude forests and a feature for intraspecific display. Its morphology—a sharply pointed wing shape for agile, sustained flight and a distinctly notched tail—is an evolutionary response to its specialized niche as a nectar feeder. These adaptations have made it a subject of interest in evolutionary biology, particularly regarding co-evolution between hummingbirds and the tubular flowers they pollinate in high-canopy environments.
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