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title: "Kleine violetoorkolibrie"
description: "Colibri cyanotus — Vogels. The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus), also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica south to the Andes and Argentina and east to Venezuela."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/lesser-violetear
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kleine violetoorkolibrie

> Colibri cyanotus — Vogels. The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus), also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica south to the Andes and Argentina and east to Venezuela.

- Scientific name: *Colibri cyanotus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 5753
- Wikidata: [Q27074775](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27074775)
- iNaturalist taxon: [508367](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/508367)

## Names

- en: Lesser Violetear
- de: Berg-Veilchenohrkolibri
- es: Colibrí Chico
- fr: Colibri cyanote
- nl: Kleine violetoorkolibrie

## Countries with the most observations

CR (3383), CO (1017), PA (296), EC (248), PE (125), BO (18), VE (17)

## Summary

The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus), also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica south to the Andes and Argentina and east to Venezuela. This species and the Mexican violetear were formerly considered as conspecific and named the 'green violetear'.

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

## Photo

![Kleine violetoorkolibrie](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/lesser-violetear/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104142429

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/lesser-violetear?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).