Purple-backed Sunbeam
Aglaeactis aliciae Salvin, 1896
Spanish: Colibrí de Alicia
The Purple-backed Sunbeam (Aglaeactis aliciae) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 7.0 g and its bill is 20.3 mm long. It is found only in Peru. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.0 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 20.3 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Vulnerable, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Peru
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
- Genus Aglaeactis sunbeams
What Aglaeactis share: Males have a patch of glittering color on the back; in females it is duller or missing.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Aglaeactis
- White-tufted Sunbeam Aglaeactis castelnaudii
- Black-hooded Sunbeam Aglaeactis pamela
- Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis
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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