Mountain Velvetbreast

Taxonomy

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae

Genus

Lafresnaya

eBird Code

mouvel1

Subspecies (7)

• Lafresnaya lafresnayi greenewalti

  Andes of western Venezuela (northeastern Táchira, Mérida, and southern Trujillo)

• Lafresnaya lafresnayi lafresnayi

  Sierra de Perijá, far southwestern Andes of Venezuela (Páramo de Tamá, in southern Táchira) and the eastern Andes of Colombia

• Lafresnaya lafresnayi liriope

  Santa Marta Mountains (northeastern Colombia)

• Lafresnaya lafresnayi longirostris

  northern portion of the central Andes of Colombia

• Lafresnaya lafresnayi orestes

  east slope of Andes of northern Peru (Amazonas, south of the Marañón Valley)

• Lafresnaya lafresnayi rectirostris

  east slope of Andes of northern and central Peru (La Libertad to Cusco)

• Lafresnaya lafresnayi saul

  western Andes of Colombia, and both slopes of Andes of Ecuador and of northern Peru (north and west of the Marañón Valley)