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Rufous-booted Racket-tail
Photo: Joao Quental · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Ocreatus addae (Bourcier, 1846)

Spanish: Colibrí de Raquetas Faldirrojo

The Rufous-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus addae) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 3.0 g and its bill is 17.6 mm long. It lives in Peru and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.

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At a glance

Weight
3.0 g, about 3 paperclips
Bill
17.6 mm
Lives in
Forest
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concernAssessed in 2016, when it was still considered one species with the White-booted and Peruvian Racket-tails. Birds of the World ↗

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
  3. Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
  4. Genus Ocreatus racket-tails

What Ocreatus share: Males' outer tail feathers end in rackets, and the legs have puffy feathers ('boots').

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Ocreatus

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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