Brown Inca

Coeligena wilsoni (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)

Brown Inca, Coeligena wilsoni, is a hummingbird of western Colombia and western Ecuador in South America, where it lives on the Pacific side of the Andes. It is most often found along the margins of cloudforest, though it also uses the forest interior. The bird has a long, straight black bill and a white mark behind the eye. Adult males show reddish bronze upperparts, a greenish olive lower back, a bronzy forked tail, dull brown underparts, an amethyst throat patch and white on each side of the breast.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

South America: w Colombia to w Ecuador