Buffy Hummingbird

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

The Buffy Hummingbird is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Buffy Hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Colombia, French Guiana, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. References - * BirdLife International 2004. Leucippus fallax. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007. More

-The Buffy Hummingbird (Leucippus fal/ax) is restricted to the "...arid Caribbean littoral of Colombia in eastern Santa Marta and the Guajira Peninsula eastward along the Venezuelan coast to Sucre..." and some islands off northeastern Ven- ezuela (Meyer de Schauensee, The Species of Birds of South America and their Distribution, Livingston, Narberth, Pennsylvania, 1966). The species also occurs farther inland (e.g., in the State of Lara; Phelps and Phelps, Bol. Soc. Venez. Cienc. Nat. 90:1-337, 1958). It 548 THE WILSON BULLETIN � Vol. 97, No. More

Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax: near Camarones, west of Riohacha: More