Antillean crested hummingbird
The Antillean crested hummingbird is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.
It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, north-east Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, semiarid forest and heavily degraded former forest. It demonstrates the general sexual dimorphism for hummingbirds where the male is bright and colorful whilst the female is more tanish and dull.
Its diet consists of arthropods and nectar from flowers. It breeds year round but for the most part between March and June.
This species holds the first record of any avian species that became prey to an amblypygid, otherwise known as a Tailless Whipscorpion. The Antillean crested hummingbird had also been observed attacking the nest of a saddled anoles .''Subspecies
- O. c. exilis – E Puerto Rico S through Lesser Antilles to St Lucia.
- O. c. ornatus Gould, 1861 – St Vincent.
- O. c. cristatus – Barbados.
- O. c. emigrans Lawrence, 1877 – Grenadines and Grenada.
