Indigo-capped Hummingbird
Saucerottia cyanifrons (Bourcier, 1843)
Spanish: Amazilia Capiazul
The Indigo-capped Hummingbird (Saucerottia cyanifrons) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 5.0 g and its bill is 20.3 mm long. It is found only in Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 5.0 g, about 5 paperclips
- Bill
- 20.3 mm
- Lives in
- Woodland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
- Endemic
- Found only in Colombia
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Saucerottia
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Saucerottia
- Steely-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia saucerottei
- Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward
- Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster
- Blue-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanura
- Copper-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cupreicauda
- Berylline Hummingbird Saucerottia beryllina
- Copper-rumped Hummingbird Saucerottia tobaci
- Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni
- Azure-crowned Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanocephala
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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