Marvelous Spatuletail
Loddigesia mirabilis (Bourcier, 1847)
Spanish: Colibrí Admirable
The Marvelous Spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 3.0 g and its bill is 19.3 mm long. It is found only in Peru. Its IUCN Red List status is Near threatened, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.0 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 19.3 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Near threatened, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Peru
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
- Genus Loddigesia spatuletails
What Loddigesia share: The male's two outer tail feathers are bare wires that cross each other and end in big, astonishing discs (rackets). Found only in northern Peru.
Where it lives · 1 country
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Heliantheini (brilliants)
- Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis aline
- Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis
- Colorful Puffleg Eriocnemis mirabilis
- White-tufted Sunbeam Aglaeactis castelnaudii
- Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides
- Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae
- Golden-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis mosquera
- Black-hooded Sunbeam Aglaeactis pamela
- Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani
- Bronzy Inca Coeligena coeligena
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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