Firecrown

The firecrowns are the genus Sephanoides of the hummingbirds.

Firecrown
Green-backed firecrown (Sephanoides sephaniodes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Lesbiini
Genus:	Sephanoides G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Mellisuga kingii[1] Vigors, 1827
Species
S. sephaniodes S. fernandensis

Species

There are two species.^[2]

Genus Sephanoides – G.R. Gray, 1840 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Green-backed firecrown	Sephanoides sephaniodes (Lesson & Garnot, 1827)	Argentina and Chile	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Juan Fernández firecrown	Sephanoides fernandensis (King, 1831) Two subspecies S. f. fernandensis †S. f. leyboldi	Isla Róbinson Crusoe, Chile	Size: Habitat: Diet:	CR

The green-backed firecrown occurs widely in Argentina and Chile, but the Juan Fernández firecrown is found solely on Isla Róbinson Crusoe, one of a three-island archipelago belonging to Chile.

Both species will hang from flower petals or leaves with their feet. They feed on nectar and insects