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Hoary Puffleg
Haplophaedia lugens (Gould, 1852)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Hoary Puffleg, Haplophaedia lugens, is a hummingbird of the Andes in South America, breeding from south-west Colombia to north-west Ecuador. It is a resident bird of cloudforest, forest edge and scrub on the Pacific slope, where it keeps to low, thick growth and is often found close to streams. It has a straight black bill and, in the male, bronze-green upperparts with a coppery crown and rump, dark grey underparts, white leg puffs and a blackish slightly forked tail. Females are duller, with all-white leg puffs, and juveniles are like them.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: sw Colombia to nw Ecuador
