Coppery Thorntail

Discosura letitiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)

Spanish: Rabudito Cobrizo · IOC: Letitia's thorntail

The Coppery Thorntail (Discosura letitiae) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 2.8 g and its bill is 14.3 mm long. It is found only in Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Data deficient.

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At a glance

Weight

2.8 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

14.3 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Data deficient

Endemic

Found only in Bolivia

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
3. Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
4. Genus Discosura thorntails

What Discosura share: Males have thin, spiky tail feathers.

Where it lives · 1 country

• Bolivia

Others in the genus Discosura

• Black-bellied Thorntail Discosura langsdorffi
• Green Thorntail Discosura conversii
• Wire-crested Thorntail Discosura popelairii
• Racket-tipped Thorntail Discosura longicaudus

Sources

Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), IOC World Bird List. 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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