Violet-fronted brilliant

Violet-fronted brilliant
male in eastern Ecuador
female from Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador.
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Heliodoxa
Species:
H. leadbeateri
Binomial name
Heliodoxa leadbeateri
(Bourcier, 1843)

The violet-fronted brilliant (Heliodoxa leadbeateri) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.