Inca de Frontino hummingbird

Coeligena orina was known for over 50 years as a subspecies
Coeligena bonapartei given by Wetmore in 1953 of a skin
of an immature individual (Carriker 1954) (del Hoyo et public.
al.1999) and reported as type locality in the mountains of Frontino
Antioquia in the north end of the western mountains. In 2004
Niels Krabbe and a group of biologists rediscovered at the type locality
and upload it to propose species category.
This species is endemic to the western mountains of Colombia, and Coeligena helianthea Coeligena bonapartei, something sympatric species are restricted to the eastern range and is only lutetiae Coeligena
by the central cordillera being geographically related
Coeligena orina