Black-throated Hermit
Phaethornis atrimentalis Lawrence, 1858
Spanish: Ermitaño Barbinegro
The Black-throated Hermit (Phaethornis atrimentalis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 2.6 g and its bill is 25.2 mm long. It lives in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 2.6 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 25.2 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Phaethornithinae hermits
- Genus Phaethornis hermits
What Phaethornis share: Long, curved bills and long central tail feathers, often white-tipped. Males gather in leks to sing.
Where it lives · 3 countries
Others in the genus Phaethornis
- Cinnamon-throated Hermit Phaethornis nattereri
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
- Minute Hermit Phaethornis idaliae
- Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis
- Tapajos Hermit Phaethornis aethopygus
- Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber
- Little Hermit Phaethornis longuemareus
- White-browed Hermit Phaethornis stuarti
- Streak-throated Hermit Phaethornis rupurumii
- Buff-bellied Hermit Phaethornis subochraceus
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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