Lepidopyga lilliae

The green-bellied hummingbird is an extremely beautiful type of hummingbird, which can almost be called the level of appearance of hummingbirds. The feathers of the green belly hummingbird are very rich in color, and very glossy, as if each feather can glow in the sun, very beautiful. The head of the green-bellied hummingbird has feathers as fine as hair, and at the same time it shines with a very bright metallic luster, the neck is distributed with feathers of various colors, and even the feathers on the legs are extremely fine, arranged and shining.

South America (including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falkland Islands))
The greenbellied hummingbird is an arboreal animal, living mostly in trees, so most of its nests are in branches, or in caves in the mountains, or in the holes of trees. A small number of greenbelted hummingbirds also choose to build their nests on leaves. In order to secure the nest, they use spider silk to wrap it around a branch, connecting the branch to the nest, so that it can be secured.

The greenbellied Hummingbird is known by its scientific name Lepidopyga lilliae and foreign name Saphil-bellied Hummingbird, v.

Green belly hummingbirds eat fruit, because of their small size, few small spiders or insects can be defeated by green belly hummingbirds, so they will choose to pick up some small insect corpses to eat, rather than actively attack.

The nest of the greenbelted hummingbird, most of which is slender, small, cup-shaped, suspended from horizontal branches; Others make nests in caves, while others are textile nests, hung with spider silk on rock faces or on large leaves (such as the leaves of palm or tree fern).

South America has the awareness of protecting the green belly hummingbird. In order to make the habitat of the green belly hummingbird no longer decrease, the South American people have decisively adopted the policy of returning farmland to forest, hoping to increase the breeding of the green belly hummingbird through the protection of its habitat.

Protection level: EN Endangered. Listed on the List of Endangered Animals

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