Peruvian Sheartail
Thaumastura cora (Lesson, RP & Garnot, 1827)
Spanish: Colibrí Cora
The Peruvian Sheartail (Thaumastura cora) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 1.9 g and its bill is 16.0 mm long. It lives in Peru, Chile and Ecuador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 1.9 g, about 2 paperclips
- Bill
- 16.0 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Some populations migrate
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Mellisugini bees
- Genus Thaumastura sheartails
What Thaumastura share: Males have a deeply forked tail.
Where it lives · 3 countries
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Mellisugini (bees)
- Amethyst Woodstar Calliphlox amethystina
- Short-tailed Woodstar Myrmia micrura
- Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird Tilmatura dupontii
- Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny
- Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis vesper
- Chilean Woodstar Eulidia yarrellii
- Slender-tailed Woodstar Microstilbon burmeisteri
- White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant
- Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus
- Gorgeted Woodstar Chaetocercus heliodor
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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