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Buff-breasted Sabrewing

Campylopterus duidae Chapman, 1929

Spanish: Colibrí del Duida

The Buff-breasted Sabrewing (Campylopterus duidae) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 6.1 g and its bill is 28.0 mm long. It lives in Venezuela and Brazil. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
6.1 g, about 6 paperclips
Bill
28.0 mm
Lives in
Forest
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, decreasing

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
  4. Genus Campylopterus sabrewings

What Campylopterus share: Males have thickened, bent shafts on their outer wing feathers (the 'sabres').

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Campylopterus

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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