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Buff-tailed Sicklebill
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Buff-tailed Sicklebill

Eutoxeres condamini (Bourcier, 1851)

Spanish: Picohoz Colicanela

The Buff-tailed Sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 10.8 g and its bill is 24.7 mm long. It lives in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
10.8 g, about 11 paperclips
Bill
24.7 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 Phaethornithinae hermits
  3. Genus Eutoxeres sicklebills

What Eutoxeres share: The bill curves sharply downward, matching the curved flowers of plants such as Heliconia.

Where it lives · 3 countries

Others in the genus Eutoxeres

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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