The Amethyst-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus amethysticollis) is a species of hummingbird

Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds that comprise the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring in the 7.5–13 cm range. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm Bee Hummingbird. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings...

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It is found in Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

, Ecuador

Ecuador

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, and Peru

Peru

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. Its natural habitat

Habitat

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s are subtropical or tropical moist montane

Montane

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 forests and heavily degraded former forest.

The taxonomy of this species is uncertain. The subspecies spencei is recognised by Sibley and Monroe as a full species, the Merida Sunangel, H. spencie (Bourcier

Jules Bourcier

Jules Bourcier was a French naturalist.Bourcier was an expert on hummingbirds, and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant....

 1847), but other authorities lump it with Longuemare's Sunangel

Longuemare's Sunangel

Longuemare's Sunangel is a species of hummingbird found in Venezuela and northeastern Colombia. It is closely related to the Amethyst-throated Sunangel, and species limits in this complex are unclear....

, H. clarisse of Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 and Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

or consider both spencei and clarisse as subspecies of Amethyst-throated Sunangel.