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title: "Speckled Hummingbird"
description: "Adelomyia melanogenys — Uccelli. The speckled hummingbird (Adelomyia melanogenys) is a species of hummingbird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/speckled-hummingbird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Speckled Hummingbird

> Adelomyia melanogenys — Uccelli. The speckled hummingbird (Adelomyia melanogenys) is a species of hummingbird.

- Scientific name: *Adelomyia melanogenys*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 1898
- Wikidata: [Q503619](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503619)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6166](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6166)

## Names

- en: Speckled Hummingbird
- de: Schwarzohrkolibri
- es: Colibrí Jaspeado
- fr: Colibri moucheté
- pl: Płowik

## Countries with the most observations

EC (897), CO (615), PE (187), BO (19), VE (18), AR (9)

## Summary

The speckled hummingbird (Adelomyia melanogenys) is a species of hummingbird. It is the only member of the genus Adelomyia. It inhabits Neotropical montane cloud forests at elevations of 1,000–2,500 meters and is confined to the Andes of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela; as well as to some isolated montane forests in western Ecuador and Venezuela. In Ecuador, it ranges across both the eastern and western slopes of the Andes and occupies a broad altitudinal range from subtropical forests (1400 m) to cloud forests (3000 m). In addition, one isolated population inhabits the Chongón Colonche cordillera…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled_hummingbird

## Photo

![Speckled Hummingbird](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/speckled-hummingbird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Manuel Roncal · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78306844

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/speckled-hummingbird?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).