Empress Brilliant vs Great Flying Fox

Heliodoxa imperatrix compared with Pteropus neohibernicus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Empress Brilliant	Great Flying Fox
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum same	Chordata (Chordates)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Aves (Birds)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Apodiformes (Apodiformes)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Trochilidae	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)
Genus	Heliodoxa	Pteropus (Flying Foxes)
Species	Heliodoxa imperatrix	Pteropus neohibernicus

Evolutionary Relationship

Empress Brilliant and Great Flying Fox share a common ancestor at the Phylum level: Chordata. (Chordates)

Conservation Status

Empress Brilliant

LC — Least Concern

Great Flying Fox

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Empress Brilliant	Great Flying Fox
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Empress Brilliant

Habitat

Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Norway.

Great Flying Fox

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Empress Brilliant

A large, brilliantly colored hummingbird of humid Andean forests in Colombia and Ecuador, male empress brilliants are among the most striking hummingbirds with iridescent green and violet plumage and glittering scales across their throat and breast. Found at elevations between 1,000–2,100 meters in cloud forest. Named in honor of Empress Eugenie of France, these powerful birds aggressively defend territory around flowering trees. Listed as Least Concern with stable populations in remaining Andean forest.