Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | colibrí presumit crestanegre |
| Czech | koketka límečková |
| Dutch | Zwartkuifkoketkolibrie |
| English | Black-crested Coquette |
| English (United States) | Black-crested Coquette |
| French | Coquette d'Hélène |
| French (France) | Coquette d'Hélène |
| German | Schwarzschopfelfe |
| Japanese | クロツノユウジョハチドリ |
| Norwegian | svarttoppkokette |
| Polish | sylfik czarnoczuby |
| Russian | Чернохохлая кокетка |
| Serbian | Crnoćubi koketa kolibri |
| Slovak | golierčik čiernochochlatý |
| Spanish | Coqueta Crestinegra |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | Coqueta Crestinegra |
| Spanish (Honduras) | Colibrí Cresta Negra |
| Spanish (Mexico) | Coqueta Cresta Negra |
| Spanish (Panama) | Coqueta Crestinegra |
| Spanish (Spain) | Coqueta crestinegra |
| Swedish | svarttofskokett |
| Turkish | Kara Başlıklı Koket |
| Ukrainian | Колібрі-вусань чорночубий |
Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae
Marîa del Coro Arizmendi, Claudia I. Rodríguez-Flores, Carlos A. Soberanes-González, Guy M. Kirwan, and Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published February 1, 2013
Version: 1.0 — Published February 1, 2013
Diet and Foraging
Diet
Black-crested Coquette primarily is nectarivorous, foraging on plants such as Clusia, Cordia, Dipterix, Hampea, Hymenolobium, Norantea and Vochysia (Stiles and Skutch 1989); generally, these coquettes visit "small, typically insect-pollinated flowers on mass-flowering trees" (Stiles and Skutch 1989). Also forage at brushy hedgerows, "especially those with flowering Stachytarpheta" (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
As is typical of hummingbirds generally (Remsen et al. 1983), Black-crested Coquettes also consome small arthropods, which are gleaned in flight from twigs and foliage (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
