Broad-tipped Hermit
Anopetia gounellei (Boucard, 1891)
Spanish: Ermitaño Coliancho
The Broad-tipped Hermit (Anopetia gounellei) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 3.2 g and its bill is 25.4 mm long. It is found only in Brazil. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.2 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 25.4 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern
- Endemic
- Found only in Brazil
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Phaethornithinae hermits
- Genus Anopetia hermits
Where it lives · 1 country
Nearest relatives, in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits)
- Sooty Barbthroat Threnetes niger
- White-bearded Hermit Phaethornis hispidus
- Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus
- White-whiskered Hermit Phaethornis yaruqui
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Green Hermit Phaethornis guy
- Rufous-breasted Hermit Glaucis hirsutus
- Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus
- Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aeneus
- Koepcke's Hermit Phaethornis koepckeae
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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