Birds of Peru

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Haplophaedia (2 species, 3 worldwide)


Buff-thighed Puffleg
Buff-thighed Puffleg (Haplophaedia assimilis)
Manu Road, Peru  
   
Photograph by Peter Kaestner   © All Rights Reserved.

Buff-thighed Puffleg
Buff-thighed Puffleg (Haplophaedia assimilis assimilis)
Old Coroico Rd, Bolivia  
   
Photograph by Bradley Hacker   © All Rights Reserved.


Greenish Puffleg
Greenish Puffleg (Haplophaedia aureliae caucensis)
ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Greenish Puffleg
Greenish Puffleg (Haplophaedia aureliae)
ProAves Chestnut-capped Piha Reserve, AnorĂ­, Antioquia, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Puffs at base of legs sometimes small or not noticeable. White on belly variable (related to sex or subspecies?). Often misidentified; note coppery head and rump and smallish size. Found inside the forest, often perched about two meters above the ground.


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