Bronze-tailed Comet
Polyonymus caroli (Bourcier, 1847)
Spanish: Colibrí Colibronce
The Bronze-tailed Comet (Polyonymus caroli) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 4.8 g and its bill is 23.2 mm long. It is found only in Peru. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 4.8 g, about 5 paperclips
- Bill
- 23.2 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
- Endemic
- Found only in Peru
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Polyonymus comets
Where it lives · 1 country
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Lesbiini (coquettes)
- Red-tailed Comet Sappho sparganurus
- Gray-bellied Comet Taphrolesbia griseiventris
- Venezuelan Sylph Aglaiocercus berlepschi
- Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo
- Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis
- Blue-throated Hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus
- Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingii
- Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni
- Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys
- Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster
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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