Black-backed Thornbill
Ramphomicron dorsale Salvin & Godman, 1880
Spanish: Colibrí Piquicorto Dorsinegro
The Black-backed Thornbill (Ramphomicron dorsale) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 3.5 g and its bill is 12.7 mm long. It is found only in Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Near threatened, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.5 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 12.7 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Near threatened, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Colombia
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Ramphomicron thornbills
What Ramphomicron share: Very short bills.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Ramphomicron
- Purple-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron microrhynchum
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.
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