Green Thorntail

Discosura conversii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)

Spanish: Rabudito Verde

The Green Thorntail (Discosura conversii) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 3.0 g and its bill is 14.4 mm long. It lives in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

3.0 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

14.4 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 Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
3. Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
4. Genus Discosura thorntails

What Discosura share: Males have thin, spiky tail feathers.

Where it lives · 4 countries

• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Colombia
• Panama

Others in the genus Discosura

• Coppery Thorntail Discosura letitiae
• Racket-tipped Thorntail Discosura longicaudus
• Black-bellied Thorntail Discosura langsdorffi
• Wire-crested Thorntail Discosura popelairii

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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