Fawn-breasted Brilliant

Common name: Fawn-breasted Brilliant
Scientific name: Heliodoxa rubinoides
Clades: Heliantheini - Brilliants

The Fawn-breasted brilliant is 11 cm (4.3 inches) long and weighs 8 g (0.28 oz).

The Fawn-breasted Brilliant species can be found within Andean cloud forests between 1,000 and 2,200 meters. Identified by its warm buffy underparts and green upperparts. There is a slight droop at the tip of the bill. There is an isolated pink patch on the throat. Similar to the male, the female has more green spotting on the underparts and a smaller throat patch or none at all. At feeders, they can be quite common but are usually uncommon at lower levels of the forest.

3 subspecies:

1. H. r. rubinoides
   Distribution C and E Andes of Colombia.

2. H. r. aequatorialis
   Distribution W Andes in Colombia (Antioquia) S on W slope to Ecuador (from Pichincha to El Oro and W Loja).

3. H. r. cervinigularis
   Distribution E slope of Andes in Ecuador (mainly Sucumbíos to W Napo) and Peru (mainly in Pasco, Huánuco, Junín and Cuzco); recorded in N Cochabamba, in C Bolivia.

taken in Colombia

taken in Peru