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Giant Hummingbird
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Giant Hummingbird

Patagona gigas (Vieillot, 1824)

Spanish: Colibrí Gigante

The Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Patagoninae (Patagona). It weighs about 20.2 g and its bill is 45.2 mm long. It lives in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight
20.2 g, about 20 paperclips
Bill
45.2 mm
Lives in
Shrubland
Moves
Some populations migrate
Red List status
Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Patagoninae Patagona
  3. Genus Patagona

What Patagona share: The largest hummingbird, about 20 g.

Where it lives · 6 countries

Nearest relatives, in the subfamily Patagoninae (Patagona)

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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