Black Metaltail
Metallura phoebe (Lesson, RP & Delattre, 1839)
Spanish: Metalura Negra
The Black Metaltail (Metallura phoebe) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 5.4 g and its bill is 21.7 mm long. It is found only in Peru. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 5.4 g, about 5 paperclips
- Bill
- 21.7 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Peru
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Metallura metaltails
What Metallura share: Tails glossed with metallic color.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Metallura
- Scaled Metaltail Metallura aeneocauda
- Fire-throated Metaltail Metallura eupogon
- Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae
- Neblina Metaltail Metallura odomae
- Violet-throated Metaltail Metallura baroni
- Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami
- Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina
- Perija Metaltail Metallura iracunda
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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