Short-crested coquette


The short-crested coquette is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Description

This tiny hummingbird measures and weighs. The male has bronze-green upperparts with rufous crown and crest. White band on upper rump and bronze-purple lower rump. The throat is green while the face features short, orange cheek-tufts tipped green. A white band separates the throat from the rest of the underparts, which are pale cinnamon. The female lacks the male's crest and cheek patches.

Habitat

It is found only in Mexico, in the extremely restricted range of a stretch of the Atoyac-Paraíso-Puerto del Gallo road in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico, north-west of Acapulco.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest and plantations.
It is threatened by habitat loss caused by land clearing for agricultural purposes. Conservation plans are complicated by illegal narcotic production activities within its restricted range.

Diet

The bird is omnivorous, eating fruit, nuts, small amphibians and some invertebrates such as worms