What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Tufted Coquette been recorded?

Lophornis ornatus occurrence evidence comes from 32 records in 5 countries and territories, from 1932 to 2024. Most records come from Guyana.

Tufted Coquette
Tufted Coquette — Photo (display-sized rendition): Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesApodiformesTrochilidaeLophornis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

32 records across 5 countries and territories, 1932–2024.

Lophornis ornatus · GBIF taxon key 2477011

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: January.

3 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: January. 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

19322024

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

Where Tufted Coquette has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Tufted Coquette. 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
Guyana 16
Trinidad & Tobago 10
French Guiana 2
Suriname 2
Venezuela 2

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