Olive-spotted Hummingbird
Talaphorus chlorocercus (Gould, 1866)
Spanish: Colibrí Blanquioliva
The Olive-spotted Hummingbird (Talaphorus chlorocercus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 4.6 g and its bill is 19.6 mm long. It lives in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 4.6 g, about 5 paperclips
- Bill
- 19.6 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Talaphorus
Where it lives · 4 countries
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Trochilini (emeralds)
- Sombre Hummingbird Eupetomena cirrochloris
- Red-billed Streamertail Trochilus polytmus
- Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura
- Black-billed Streamertail Trochilus scitulus
- Many-spotted Hummingbird Taphrospilus hypostictus
- Violet-crowned Hummingbird Ramosomyia violiceps
- Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii
- Green-fronted Hummingbird Ramosomyia viridifrons
- Tumbes Hummingbird Thaumasius baeri
- Azure-crowned Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanocephala
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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