Eriocnemis mirabilis

IUCN

Alias：Eriocnemis mirabilis，Colorful Puffleg

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Eriocnemis mirabilis
Aliases：Eriocnemis mirabilis，Colorful Puffleg
Outline：Climbing birds
Family：

Vital signs

length：9-10cm
Weight：No textual research information is available
lifetime：No textual research information is available

Feature

It's a hummingbird native to Colombia

Details

The Colorful Puffleg hummingbird (Eriocnemis mirabilis, Colorful Puffleg) is a species of hummingbird endemic to Colombia. Specific habits are unknown.

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The painted hair-legged hummingbird is found in a small area of southwestern Colombia. The global number is unknown because the total area of suitable habitat for the species is less than 10 square kilometres, and its habitat has been reduced by deforestation of mountaintop coppice for agriculture and illegal coca plantations. Illegal coca cultivation is the biggest threat, with an average of 8.3% of suitable habitat being lost each year.

The painted hair-legged hummingbird is one of the world's endangered species and is one of the United Nations Endangered Wildlife List.

Because of its rarity, the painted feather-legged hummingbird is currently listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. In 2005, Swarovski's sponsorship led to the AmericanBirdConservancy and the Colombia Bird Conservation Fund. sFundacionProAves were able to establish a protected area in the habitat of the painted feather-legged hummingbird. The current global population of this species ranges from 50 to 250 pairs of adult birds.

In 2009, it was listed on the Red List of critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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Location

The painted hair-legged hummingbird is found in a small range on the Pacific slope near the Andes Mountains in western Cauca province in southwestern Colombia. When Mazariegos and Salaman visited the western Andes in 1999, they found other regional habitats suitable for the painted leg.
Painted hair-legged hummingbirds live in humid forests and forest boundaries in subtropical areas at altitudes of 2200-2440 m. It can feed on the ground above 2-4 m in the highlands.