Lesser Violetear
Colibri cyanotus (Bourcier, 1843)
Spanish: Colibrí Orejas Violetas Menor
The Lesser Violetear (Colibri cyanotus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 5.9 g and its bill is 23.7 mm long. It lives in Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Venezuela and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 5.9 g, about 6 paperclips
- Bill
- 23.7 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concernRated by BirdLife International in 2011. Birds of the World ↗
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Polytminae mangoes
- Genus Colibri violetears
What Colibri share: A patch of violet-blue feathers behind the eye (the 'ear') that can be fanned out in display.
Where it lives · 9 countries
- Costa Rica
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru
- Panama
- Venezuela
- Bolivia
- Canada rare visitor
- United States rare visitor
Others in the genus Colibri
- Mexican Violetear Colibri thalassinus
- Brown Violetear Colibri delphinae
- Sparkling Violetear Colibri coruscans
- White-vented Violetear Colibri serrirostris
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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