Blue-tailed Hummingbird
Saucerottia cyanura (Gould, 1859)
Spanish: Colibrí Cola Azul
The Blue-tailed Hummingbird (Saucerottia cyanura) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.9 g and its bill is 21.9 mm long. It lives in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.9 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 21.9 mm
- Lives in
- Woodland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Saucerottia
Where it lives · 6 countries
Others in the genus Saucerottia
- Berylline Hummingbird Saucerottia beryllina
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward
- Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni
- Steely-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia saucerottei
- Azure-crowned Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanocephala
- Indigo-capped Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanifrons
- Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris
- Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster
- Copper-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cupreicauda
- Copper-rumped Hummingbird Saucerottia tobaci
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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