Gorgeted Woodstar

Chaetocercus heliodor (Bourcier, 1840)

Spanish: Colibrí de Heliodoro

The Gorgeted Woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 2.0 g and its bill is 16.1 mm long. It lives in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

2.0 g, about 2 paperclips

Bill

16.1 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 Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
3. Tribe Mellisugini bees
4. Genus Chaetocercus woodstars

What Chaetocercus share: Among the smallest birds in the world.

Where it lives · 3 countries

• Ecuador
• Colombia
• Venezuela

Others in the genus Chaetocercus

• Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus
• Santa Marta Woodstar Chaetocercus astreans
• White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant
• Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi
• Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii

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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