Juan Fernandez Firecrown
Sephanoides fernandensis (King, PP, 1831)
Spanish: Colibrí de las Juan Fernández
The Juan Fernandez Firecrown (Sephanoides fernandensis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 8.7 g and its bill is 22.6 mm long. It is found only in Chile. Its IUCN Red List status is Critically endangered, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 8.7 g, about 9 paperclips
- Bill
- 22.6 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Critically endangered, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Chile
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Sephanoides firecrowns
What Sephanoides share: Males have a fiery crown. One species lives only on the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Sephanoides
- Green-backed Firecrown Sephanoides sephaniodes
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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