What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Green-crowned Brilliant been recorded?

Heliodoxa jacula occurrence evidence comes from 355 records in 4 countries and territories, from 1900 to 2026. Most records come from Costa Rica.

Green-crowned Brilliant
Green-crowned Brilliant — Photo (display-sized rendition): Joseph C Boone · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesApodiformesTrochilidaeHeliodoxa

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

355 records across 4 countries and territories, 1900–2026.

Heliodoxa jacula · GBIF taxon key 2476948

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: February.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19002026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Green-crowned Brilliant has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Green-crowned Brilliant. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Costa Rica 196
Ecuador 93
Panama 37
Colombia 29

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Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.