Colibrí Pechiescamado/Scaly-breasted Hummingbird/Phaeochroa cuvierii

Nombre en español: Colibrí Pechiescamado

Nombre en inglés: Scaly-breasted Hummingbird

Nombre científico: Phaeochroa cuvierii

Familia: Trochilidae

Canto: Oscar Campbell

El colibrí de Cuvier (Phaeochroa cuvierii) es una especie de ave apodiforme de la familia Trochilidae, nativa de América Central y México. Es la única especie del género monotípico Phaeochroa.

Distribucíón y hábitat

Su área de distribución incluye Belice, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua y Panamá. Habita el bosque húmedo tropical y subtropical de tierras bajas, bosque muy degradado y matorrales.

Subespecies

Se distinguen las siguientes subespecies reconocidas:

Phaeochroa cuvierii berlepschi (Hellmayr, 1915)
Phaeochroa cuvierii cuvierii (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)
Phaeochroa cuvierii furvescens (Wetmore, 1967)
Phaeochroa cuvierii maculicauda (Griscom, 1932)
Phaeochroa cuvierii roberti (Salvin, 1861)
Phaeochroa cuvierii saturatior (Hartert, 1901)

Scaly-breasted hummingbird

The scaly-breasted hummingbird (Phaeochroa cuvierii) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is monotypic for its genus.

The Scaly-breasted Hummingbird is a fairly large, unadorned hummingbird that is often included within the genus Campylopterus, the sabre-wings, due to the presence of a flattened-shaft on the outer primaries. It is divided into six subspecies which occur patchily in the lowlands and foothills of the Caribbean slope from southeast Mexico to Panama on the Pacific Slope of Costa Rica and Panama and the coastal region of Northern Colombia. The species occupies a fairly large range of habitats such as dry forest, edges and clearings of gallery and humid forest, mangroves and other open habitats but avoids the interior of closed evergreen forest.

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.