Buffy Hummingbird
Leucippus fallax (Bourcier, 1843)
Spanish: Colibrí Ante
The Buffy Hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 6.0 g and its bill is 22.6 mm long. It lives in Venezuela and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 6.0 g, about 6 paperclips
- Bill
- 22.6 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Leucippus
Where it lives · 2 countries
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Trochilini (emeralds)
- Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Phaeochroa cuvierii
- Tumbes Hummingbird Thaumasius baeri
- Black-bellied Hummingbird Eupherusa nigriventris
- Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii
- Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia
- Many-spotted Hummingbird Taphrospilus hypostictus
- Blue-capped Hummingbird Eupherusa cyanophrys
- Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura
- White-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa poliocerca
- Sombre Hummingbird Eupetomena cirrochloris
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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