It is a sedentary and territorial hummingbird that moves altitudinally at certain times of the year.
Todos estos cambios en las actitudes, en el comportamiento, tendrán en el sector turístico algunas consecuencias positivas.
It measures around 15 and 16 cm with average weight of 41. 7 g. The male has a black head throat and sides of the chest and has a bright yellow ring that begins above the eye and surrounds the auriculars, and extends to the base of the bill. Above it is mainly moss green with brownish blue wings.
They have a white line, which starts from the bill and extends below the eye and down the side of the neck. Black and white striped throat, black chest and black and suede barred abdomen. The females, these plumage features are black. The bill is typically black in both sexes, though pale-billed individuals regularly are seen.
It is measures around 18 centimeters, with an average weight of 41 gr. The male has a blue crown and nape; black cheeks with a small yellow spot under the eye; dark blue greyish back; golden yellow underside and black thighs.
The habitats are humid forest, often on forest edges and in secondary succession forests.
Black- thighed puffleg are active, territorial hummingbird that primarily feed on nectar from low flowers.
It lives in mountain of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela year-round.
It is found in wet and very wet humid forests. It can be found in forest edges and in secondary forest, usually in the treetops.
This species is a winter resident and is found in the Country from October to may.
