Violet-crowned Woodnymph

The Violet-crowned Woodnymph is a common to abundant bird of wet lowlands and foothills to 2500 m, and may move higher when not breeding. The female Violet-crowned Woodnymph is entirely responsible for nest building and incubation. She lays two white eggs in a plant-fibre cup nest 1-5 m high on a horizontal branch. Incubation takes 15-19 days, and fledging another 20-26.

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

The Violet-crowned Woodnymph is a common to abundant bird of wet lowlands and foothills to 2500 m, and may move higher when not breeding. The female Violet-crowned Woodnymph is entirely responsible for nest building and incubation. She lays two white eggs in a plant-fibre cup nest 1-5 m high on a horizontal branch. Incubation takes 15-19 days, and fledging another 20-26. The adult male Violet-crowned Woodnymph is 10.2 cm long and weighs 4.5 g. More

The adult male Violet-crowned Woodnymph is 10.2 cm long and weighs 4.5 g. It has a violet crown, upper back, shoulders and belly, a shiny green throat and breast, green lower back, and a deeply forked blue-black tail. The female is 8.4-9 cm long and weighs 3.5 g. She is bright green above and duller green below, with a grey throat and breast. Her tail is rounded, mainly green near the body but with a blue-black lower half and white corners. More

Violet-crowned Woodnymph also takes small insects and spiders as an essential source of protein. - jlinaresp trouve(nt) cette note utile Only registered TrekNature members may rate photo notes. Ajouter Critique Seuls les membres de TrekNature enregistr More

This male Violet-crowned Woodnymph was photographed at the ProAves El Dorado Reserve, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Department Magdalena, Colombia. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=630mm) on a Nikon D300 camera. More

colombica (sensu stricto) should be Violet-crowned Woodnymph and that the English name Crowned Woodnymph be applied only to T. colombica (sensu lato), including T. fannyi. Presumably a NO vote on this proposal would be to keep our current name of Purple-crowned Woodnymph. F. Gary Stiles, August 2007 Current SACC footnote: 37aa. More

Order : Apodiformes
Family : Trochilidae
Genus : Thalurania
Species : colombica
Authority : (Bourcier, 1843)