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Green-tailed Trainbearer
Photo: Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Green-tailed Trainbearer

Lesbia nuna (Lesson, RP, 1832)

Spanish: Colibrí Colilargo Menor

The Green-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia nuna) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 3.7 g and its bill is 17.9 mm long. It lives in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight
3.7 g, about 4 paperclips
Bill
17.9 mm
Lives in
Shrubland
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

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

What Lesbia share: Extremely long, deeply forked tails.

Where it lives · 4 countries

Others in the genus Lesbia

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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