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Geoffroy's Daggerbill
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Geoffroy's Daggerbill

Schistes geoffroyi (Bourcier, 1843)

Spanish: Colibrí Picocuña Oriental

The Geoffroy's Daggerbill (Schistes geoffroyi) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 3.6 g and its bill is 17.1 mm long. It lives in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
3.6 g, about 4 paperclips
Bill
17.1 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 Polytminae mangoes
  3. Genus Schistes daggerbills

Where it lives · 5 countries

Others in the genus Schistes

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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