Lesser Violetear
Colibri cyanotus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,310
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Description
The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus), also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica south to the Andes and Argentina and east to Venezuela. This species and the Mexican violetear were formerly considered as conspecific and named the 'green violetear'.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Lesser violetear”.