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Woodnymph
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For other uses, see Wood nymph (disambiguation).
Woodnymphs are hummingbirds in the genus Thalurania. Males are green and violet-blue, while females are green with white-tipped tails and at least partially whitish underparts. Both sexes have an almost straight, entirely black bill and little or no white post-ocular spot. They are found in forest (primarily humid) and tall second growth. The species in this genus are almost entirely allo- or parapatric, and a species is present virtually everywhere in the tropical humid Neotropics.
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Woodnymph | |
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Male violet-capped woodnymph (Thalurania glaucopis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Trochilini |
Genus: | Thalurania Gould, 1848 |
Type species | |
Trochilus furcatus (fork-tailed woodnymph) Gmelin, JF, 1788 | |
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