Buff-thighed Puffleg

Haplophaedia assimilis (Elliot, DG, 1876)

Buff-thighed Puffleg, Haplophaedia assimilis, is a hummingbird found in Peru and Bolivia, where it lives on the eastern slopes of the Andes. It breeds in South America in humid to wet pre-montane forest, especially in undergrowth and along forest edges. The bird has a straight blackish bill, and the adults of the nominate form are mostly dark green with a slightly forked blue-black tail. Its leg puffs are creamy buff to whitish, while the northern subspecies is darker and has pale rufous leg puffs.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

South America: Peru and Bolivia