Little Hermit
Phaethornis longuemareus (Lesson, RP, 1832)
Spanish: Ermitaño Chico
The Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 3.0 g and its bill is 28.4 mm long. It lives in Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname. 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
- 28.4 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Phaethornithinae hermits
- Genus Phaethornis hermits
What Phaethornis share: Long, curved bills and long central tail feathers, often white-tipped. Males gather in leks to sing.
Where it lives · 5 countries
Others in the genus Phaethornis
- Streak-throated Hermit Phaethornis rupurumii
- Tapajos Hermit Phaethornis aethopygus
- Dusky-throated Hermit Phaethornis squalidus
- Minute Hermit Phaethornis idaliae
- Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus
- Cinnamon-throated Hermit Phaethornis nattereri
- Great-billed Hermit Phaethornis malaris
- Black-throated Hermit Phaethornis atrimentalis
- Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
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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