Olivaceous Thornbill
Chalcostigma olivaceum (Lawrence, 1864)
Spanish: Colibrí Oliváceo
The Olivaceous Thornbill (Chalcostigma olivaceum) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 8.2 g and its bill is 15.3 mm long. It lives in Peru and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 8.2 g, about 8 paperclips
- Bill
- 15.3 mm
- Lives in
- Grassland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Chalcostigma thornbills
What Chalcostigma share: Short bills.
Where it lives · 2 countries
Others in the genus Chalcostigma
- Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps
- Blue-mantled Thornbill Chalcostigma stanleyi
- Bronze-tailed Thornbill Chalcostigma heteropogon
- Rainbow-bearded Thornbill Chalcostigma herrani
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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