Pink-throated Brilliant

Heliodoxa gularis (Gould, 1860)

Pink-throated Brilliant, Heliodoxa gularis, is a hummingbird of north-west Amazonia in South America, recorded from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It lives in humid montane forest, mainly from the southern Eastern Andes of Colombia into Ecuador, with a few records from north-eastern Peru. Its most striking feature is the glittering pinkish red throat patch, which is smaller in the female. Both sexes are much alike and show a black bill, a white mark behind the eye, green upperparts, a green breast, a grey belly and a long forked bronzy green tail.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

South America: nw Amazonia