Blue-throated Hillstar
Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus Sornoza-Molina, Freile, Nilsson, J, Krabbe & Bonaccorso, 2018
Spanish: Colibrí del Arcos
The Blue-throated Hillstar (Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 8.1 g and its bill is 22.7 mm long. It is found only in Ecuador. Its IUCN Red List status is Critically endangered, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 8.1 g, about 8 paperclips
- Bill
- 22.7 mm
- Lives in
- Grassland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Critically endangered, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Ecuador
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Oreotrochilus hillstars
What Oreotrochilus share: Live high in the Andes, up to the snow line, and can drop into torpor on cold nights.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Oreotrochilus
- Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo
- Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni
- Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster
- Andean Hillstar Oreotrochilus estella
- White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus
- Wedge-tailed Hillstar Oreotrochilus adela
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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