Coppery-naped puffleg

Coppery-naped puffleg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Trochiliformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Eriocnemis
Species: E. luciani
Trinomial name
Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia
Taczanowski, 1874
Synonyms

Eriocnemis sapphiropygia

The coppery-naped puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani sapphiropygia, is a species of hummingbird found in the Andes in Peru in wet montane forest edges between 2000–4000 m altitude. It is usually considered a subspecies of the sapphire-vented puffleg, Eriocnemis luciani.

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