Green-crowned Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandi (aka Plovercrest) Brazilian name: Beija-flor-de-topete |
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Brazil November 2008 The Green-crowned Plovercrest is distributed in south-east Brazil from
Espírito Santo to north-east São Paulo. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. |
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The generic name comes from the Greek Stephanos, a crown and oxus, sharp. The specific name lalandi comes from Pierre Antoine Delalande, a French collector who worked in the Rio de Janeiro area in 1816 while the subspecific name loddigesii comes from George Loddiges, a British taxidermist who specialised in hummingbirds. | |||
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The birds in photos 1 to 3 was recorded by Jeremy Minns at a lek in low montane scrub by the Agulhas Negras Road in Itatiaia. | |||
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