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Greenish Puffleg
Haplophaedia aureliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Greenish Puffleg, Haplophaedia aureliae, is a hummingbird of Middle America and South America, breeding in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. It belongs to the family Trochilidae and was described by Bourcier and Mulsant in 1846. The species is a small forest bird with a slightly forked blue-black tail, and the male has green upperparts with a coppery head and neck, duller green underparts, and white leg puffs that are buff inside. Females are similar, but their underparts are more strongly scaled and the leg puffs are wholly white.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: e Panama, Colombia and Ecuador
