Mexican Hermit
Phaethornis mexicanus Hartert, EJO, 1897
Spanish: Colibrí Ermitaño Mexicano
The Mexican Hermit (Phaethornis mexicanus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 6.0 g and its bill is 46.4 mm long. It is found only in Mexico. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 6.0 g, about 6 paperclips
- Bill
- 46.4 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Mexico
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 · 1 country
Others in the genus Phaethornis
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus
- Straight-billed Hermit Phaethornis bourcieri
- Great-billed Hermit Phaethornis malaris
- Needle-billed Hermit Phaethornis philippii
- Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus
- Koepcke's Hermit Phaethornis koepckeae
- Dusky-throated Hermit Phaethornis squalidus
- Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus
- Streak-throated Hermit Phaethornis rupurumii
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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