Purple-throated Woodstar

Philodice mitchellii (Bourcier, 1847)

Purple-throated Woodstar, Philodice mitchellii, is a hummingbird of Middle America and South America, breeding from eastern Panama through Colombia to western Ecuador. It occurs in humid forest and cloudforest, including both the forest edge and the interior, and is most often recorded above 1,000 m, though it can be found from sea level to 2,400 m. It is a monotypic species. The male has a shining violet-purple throat with a white band below it, while both sexes show a short black bill and a white patch on each side of the rump.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: e Panama to w Ecuador