Blue-mantled Thornbill
Chalcostigma stanleyi (Bourcier, 1851)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Blue-mantled Thornbill, Chalcostigma stanleyi, is a hummingbird of the Andes in Ecuador to west-central Bolivia, with its breeding range also extending through Peru. It lives on steep rocky slopes in humid páramo and jalca, especially where Polylepis and Gynoxys woodland is present. The bird has a short straight black bill and a small white mark behind the eye. Males show a narrow throat patch that shifts from green to pink and violet, while females are plainer and have pale tips on the outer tail feathers.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: Ecuador to wc Bolivia
