Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Heliothryx
 
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SPECIES

Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti

Marîa del Coro Arizmendi, Claudia I. Rodríguez-Flores, Carlos A. Soberanes-González, and Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published November 15, 2013

Distribution

Distribution in the Americas

Purple-crowned Fairy is resident in the lowlands of Central America and northwestern South America. It occurs along the Atlantic slope from southern Mexico, in eastern Chiapas and southern Tabasco, south to Panama (Berrett 1963, Russell 1964, Slud 1964, Monroe 1968, Wetmore 1968, Land 1970, Alvarez del Toro 1971, Stiles and Skutch 1989, Howell and Webb 1995, Martínez-Sánchez and Will 2010). It also occurs on the Pacific slope of southwestern Costa Rica and of Panama (Slud 1964, Wetmore 1968, Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Purple-crowned Fairy also occurs south along the Pacific slope of Colombia and Ecuador to extreme northwestern Peru in Tumbes (Hilty and Brown 1986, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001a, Sánchez et al. 2012). The distribution in Colombia extends east into the lower Magdalena Valley (Meyer de Schauensee 1949, Haffer 1975, Hilty and Brown 1986).

The elevational range of Purple-crowned Fairy is from sea level up to 500 m in Mexico and northern Central America (Howell and Webb 1995), but up to 1300 n on the Caribbean slope in Costa Rica, and to 1675 m in southwestern Costa Rica (Stiles and Skutch 1989), and up to 1000 m in Colombia (Hilty and Brown 1986) and to 800 m in Ecuador (Ridgely and Greenfield 2001a).

Distribution outside the Americas

Endemic to the Americas.

Habitat

Purple-crowned Fairy occupies the canopy and edges of humid lowland forest and forest edges, shaded plantations, and tall second growth (Slud 1964, Stiles and Skutch 1989, Howell and Webb 1995).

Historical changes

None reported.

Fossil history

None reported.

Distribution of the Purple-crowned Fairy - Range Map
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Distribution of the Purple-crowned Fairy

Recommended Citation

Arizmendi, M. d. C., C. I. Rodríguez-Flores, C. A. Soberanes-González, and T. S. Schulenberg (2013). Purple-crowned Fairy (Heliothryx barroti), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.pucfai1.01