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Purple-chested Hummingbird
Photo: Don Henise · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Purple-chested Hummingbird

Polyerata rosenbergi Boucard, 1895

Spanish: Amazilia de Rosenberg

The Purple-chested Hummingbird (Polyerata rosenbergi) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.7 g and its bill is 23.9 mm long. It lives in Ecuador and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight
3.7 g, about 4 paperclips
Bill
23.9 mm
Lives in
Forest
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
  4. Genus Polyerata

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Polyerata

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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