Ecuadorian Hillstar

Oreotrochilus chimborazo (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)

Spanish: Colibrí del Chimborazo

The Ecuadorian Hillstar (Oreotrochilus chimborazo) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 8.2 g and its bill is 24.4 mm long. It lives in Ecuador and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.

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At a glance

Weight

8.2 g, about 8 paperclips

Bill

24.4 mm

Lives in

Grassland

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern

Its place in the family

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

What Oreotrochilus share: Live high in the Andes, up to the snow line, and can drop into torpor on cold nights.

Where it lives · 2 countries

• Ecuador
• Colombia

Others in the genus Oreotrochilus

• Blue-throated Hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus
• Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni
• Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster
• Andean Hillstar Oreotrochilus estella
• White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus
• Wedge-tailed Hillstar Oreotrochilus adela

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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