Tyrian Metaltail

Taxonomy

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae

Genus

Metallura

eBird Code

tyrmet1

Subspecies (7)

• Metallura tyrianthina chloropogon

  coastal mountains of northern Venezuela

• Metallura tyrianthina districta

  Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (northern Colombia) and the Serrania de Perijá (Colombia/Venezuela)

• Metallura tyrianthina oreopola

  Andes of western Venezuela (Lara, Trujillo, and Mérida)

• Metallura tyrianthina quitensis

  Andes of northwestern Ecuador

• Metallura tyrianthina septentrionalis

  Andes of northern Peru (west of Río Marañón)

• Metallura tyrianthina smaragdinicollis

  Andes of eastern Peru and northern Bolivia

• Metallura tyrianthina tyrianthina

  Andes of Colombia, Venezuela (Táchira), Ecuador, and northern Peru