Firecrown

Firecrown
Green-backed firecrown (Sephanoides sephaniodes)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Lesbiini
Genus: Sephanoides
G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Mellisuga kingii
Vigors, 1827
Species

S. sephaniodes
S. fernandensis

The firecrowns are the genus Sephanoides of the hummingbirds.

Species

There are two species.

Genus Sephanoides – G.R. Gray, 1840 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Green-backed firecrown

 Sephanoides sephaniodes
(Lesson & Garnot, 1827)		 Argentina and Chile
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Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 


Juan Fernández firecrown

 Sephanoides fernandensis
(King, 1831)

Two subspecies
  • S. f. fernandensis
  • †S. f. leyboldi
Isla Róbinson Crusoe, Chile
Map of range		 Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		  CR 


The green-backed firecrown occurs widely in Argentina and Chile, but the Juan Fernández firecrown is found solely on Isla Róbinson Crusoe, one of a three-island archipelago belonging to Chile.

Both species will hang from flower petals or leaves with their feet. They feed on nectar and insects

References

  1. ↑ "Trochilidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.