Speckled

Common name: Speckled Hummingbird
Scientific name: Adelomyia melanogenys
Clades: Lesbiini - Coquettes

The Speckled Hummingbird is 8 cm (3 inches) in length (from bill to tip of tail)

The Speckled Hummingbird is a monomorphic species, meaning that males and females are indistinguishable. An otherwise drab hummingbird, it has a black cheek patch bordered by a white stripe behind the eye, and sometimes resembles a hermit. It is common to see Speckled Hummingbirds foraging alone in shaded shrubs along roads or in thickets in the forest understory in humid and wet forests. Their feeding sites tend to be scattered flowers, where they collect nectar from short-tubed flowers or rob nectar from holes in long-tubed flowers. Under the leaf of a fern, they build their nests.

9 subspecies:

1. A. m. cervina
   Distribution W and C Andes of Colombia.

2. A. m. sabinae
   Distribution west slope of the Eastern Andes of Colombia (Santander and Boyacá).

3. A. m. melanogenys
   Distribution Andes of W Venezuela (Mérida) and E range in Colombia S on E slope to SC Peru.

4. A. m. connectens
   Distribution upper Magdalena Valley (Huila), in S Colombia.

5. A. m. debellardiana
   Distribution Sierra de Perijá, on N Colombia–NW Venezuela border.

6. A. m. aeneosticta
   Distribution mountains of N Venezuela (Falcón E to Miranda).

7. A. m. chlorospila
   Distribution SE Peru (S Cuzco).

8. A. m. maculata
   Distribution W slope of Andes from SW Colombia (Nariño) S to NW Peru (La Libertad).

9. A. m. inornata
   Distribution Yungas of Bolivia and NW Argentina (Salta, Jujuy).