Colorful Puffleg

Colorful Puffleg
Colorful Puffleg
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Trochiliformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Eriocnemis
Species: E. mirabilis
Binomial name
Eriocnemis mirabilis
Meyer de Schauensee, 1967

The Colorful Puffleg (Eriocnemis mirabilis) is a critically endangered hummingbird endemic to Colombia.

In 2005, Swarovski donated funds which allowed the American Bird Conservancy and Fundación ProAves to create a reserve for this species.

The Colorful Puffleg population is estimated at around 50-250 adult birds.

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