Blue-bearded helmetcrest
| Blue-bearded helmetcrest | |
|---|---|
| At Lagos de Sevilla, Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia, photographed by Carole Turek of Hummingbird Spot | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Oxypogon |
| Species: | O. cyanolaemus |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxypogon cyanolaemus | |
The blue-bearded helmetcrest (Oxypogon cyanolaemus) is a Critically Endangered species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia.