Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Eriocnemis
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
This is a historic version of this account.   Current version

Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Carolyn W. Sedgwick
Version: 1.0 — Published April 5, 2013

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2013. Species factsheet: Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 4 April 2013.

Fjeldså, J., and N. Krabbe. 1990. Birds of the high Andes: a manual to the birds of the temperate zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America. Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hennessey, B., S. K. Herzog, and F. Sagot. 2003. Lista anotada de las aves de Bolivia. Asociación Armonia, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

Heynen, I. 1999a. Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani. Page 640 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 5. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Heynen, I. 1999b. Coppery-naped Puffleg Eriocnemis sapphiropygia. Page 640 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 5. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Hilty, S. L., and W. L. Brown. 1986. A guide to the birds of Colombia. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

King, J.R. 1991. Body weights of some Ecuadorean birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 111: 46-49.

McGuire, J.A., C.C. Witt, D.L. Altshuler, and J.V. Remsen, Jr. 2007. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate partitioning strategy. Systematic Biology 56: 837-856.

McGuire, J.A., C.C. Witt., J.V. Remsen, Jr,. R. Dudley, and D.L. Altshuler. 2009. A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds. Journal of Ornithology 150: 155-165.

Remsen, J.V., Jr., F.G. Stiles, and P.E. Scott. 1986. Frequency of arthropods in stomachs of tropical hummingbirds. Auk 103: 436-441.

Ridgely, R. S., and P. J. Greenfield. 2001a. The birds of Ecuador: status, distribution, and taxonomy. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

Ridgely, R. S., and P. J. Greenfield. 2001b. The birds of Ecuador: field guide. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

Salvin, O. 1897. [descriptions of new hummingbirds from Peru]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 6: 30-31.

Schuchmann, K.-L. 1988. A nest of the Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 108: 13-14.

Schuchmann, K.-L., A-A. Weller, and I. Heynen. 2001. Systematics and biogeography of the Andean genus Eriocnemis (Aves: Trochilidae). Journal of Ornithology 142: 433-481.

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and C. W. Sedgwick (2013). Sapphire-vented Puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.savpuf1.01
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