Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Short-crested coquette (Lophornis brachylophus), recorded as Critically Endangered
Short-crested coquette (Lophornis brachylophus). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Critically Endangered

Short-crested coquette

Lophornis brachylophus

Short-crested coquette is endemic to a small area of Mexico.

Status
Critically Endangered
Scientific name
Lophornis brachylophus
CITES
Appendix II
Taxonomy
Aves · Apodiformes · Trochilidae · Lophornis

Appearance

Both sexes have a short, straight, black bill. The adult male has a short rufous erectile crest. Its longest feathers have green tips. It has emerald green upperparts with a white band between the back and the bronzy purple lower rump and green uppertail coverts.

The short-crested coquette is 7 to 7.5 cm (2.8 to 3.0 in) long.

Range and habitat

The short-crested coquette is found only in Mexico, in the extremely restricted range of a 25 km (16 mi) stretch of the Atoyac-Paraíso-Puerto del Gallo road in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, north-west of Acapulco. It inhabits semi-deciduous and humid evergreen forest, pine-oak forest, and plantations. In elevation it ranges between 900 and 1,800 m (3,000 and 5,900 ft).

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

The short-crested coquette's breeding season is probably from November to February, but nothing else is known about its breeding phenology.

In crisis

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Short-crested coquette is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Short-crested coquette, Wikidata item Q1040426. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Short-crested coquette?
It is endemic to a small area of Mexico.
What is the conservation status of Short-crested coquette?
Critically Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Lophornis brachylophus. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Short-crested coquette live?
The short-crested coquette is found only in Mexico, in the extremely restricted range of a 25 km (16 mi) stretch of the Atoyac-Paraíso-Puerto del Gallo road in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, north-west of Acapulco.
Why is Short-crested coquette in crisis?
It is Critically Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Lophornis brachylophus?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Short-crested coquette a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.