Green-backed Firecrown

Green-backed Firecrown

Taxobox
name = Green-backed Firecrown


image_width =
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Trochiliformes
familia = Trochilidae
genus = "Sephanoides"
species = "S. sephaniodes"
binomial = "Sephanoides sephaniodes"
binomial_authority = (Lesson, 1827)

The Green-backed Firecrown ("Sephanoides sephaniodes") is a hummingbird that is found in Argentina and Chile. It can be fairly common in some locations, especially the Robinson Crusoe Island, 350 miles off the Chilean coast. It is found as far south as Tierra del Fuego.

Like its cousin the Juan Fernández Firecrown, the Green-back often hangs from flower petals or leaves with its feet. Their nests are built in high branches or bushes. They like to eat insectsFact|date=May 2008, inch wormsFact|date=May 2008, and nectar from flowers.

External links

* [http://www.avesdechile.cl/038en.htm Avesdechile factsheet.]


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