Mountain Avocetbill
Opisthoprora euryptera (Loddiges, 1832)
Spanish: Colibrí Picolezna
The Mountain Avocetbill (Opisthoprora euryptera) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 6.2 g and its bill is 16.4 mm long. It lives in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 6.2 g, about 6 paperclips
- Bill
- 16.4 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Opisthoprora avocetbills
What Opisthoprora share: The tip of the bill turns slightly upward. It sometimes takes nectar by piercing the base of a flower instead of reaching in from the front.
Where it lives · 3 countries
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Lesbiini (coquettes)
- Wedge-tailed Hillstar Oreotrochilus adela
- Black-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia victoriae
- White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus
- Green-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia nuna
- Andean Hillstar Oreotrochilus estella
- Black-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron dorsale
- Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster
- Purple-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron microrhynchum
- Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni
- Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps
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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